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A Little Book of Songs 
and Ballads. 



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Printed by Arliss and Tuckek, 
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^ iittle Book of g>ongs 

anti BallaUfi, garijetetj 

from anttmt JHusicfe Boolts, 
Bij W. F. RIMBAULT, LL.J). 8fc. 



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" Antique Ballads, sung to crowds of old, 

Now cheaply bought for thrice their weight in gold." 




London : Printed for JOHN EUSSELL SMITH, 
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THE CONTENTS. 

S - FAGB 

<, Introduction 1 

) I. Song in Praise of Arthur, Prince of Wales, a.d. 1501 21 
I II. This gentill Day dawes, written in comphment to 

Elizabeth* daughter of Edward IV . . . 24 

III. BaUad on the Marriage of Margaret Tudor . . 27 

IV. Margaret Meke 29 

V. Satirical Song on the Flemings .... 31 

VI. King Henry Vlllth's Expedition to France . . 33 

VII. Satirical Song on Friar Gastkyn .... 35 

VIII. The Kynges BaUade . . . . . . 37 

IX. Song from the Interlude of the iiij Elements . 39 

X. Jhoone is sike and ill at ease . , . . . 40 

XI. I had both Monie and a Frende .... 42 



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THE CONTENTS. 



PAGB 

XII. A Caveat against Idle Rumours . . . . 44 

XIII. The Complaynte of a Lover .... 47 

XIV. Kytt hath lost hur Key . . . . . 49 

XV. Another Version of the same . . . . 51 

XVI. By a Banke as I lay . . . . . . 53 

XVII. Another Version of the same .... 55 
XVIII. The lytyU prety Nyghtyngale . . . . . 57 

XIX. I have been a Foster long . ... 59 

XX. I cannot come every day to woo .... 60 

XXI. A Wooing Song of a Yeoman of Kent's Son . 62 ^ 

XXII. Death, rocke me asleepe . . . . . 65 

XXIII. The Hunt is up . ... . . 67 

XXIV. Come over the Burne, Bessy, to me . . . 71 ^ 
XXV. Ancient LuUaby Song . '.. . . . 77 

XXVI. A Christmas Caroll 79 

XXVII. Who hveth so merry in all this Land . . 83 

XXVIII. We be Souldiers three 86 

XXIX. The Marriage of the Frogge and the Mouse . 87 



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XXX. The Frog's Wedding 89 

XXXI. There was a Froggie ..... 92 

XXXII. The Wedding of the Flye . . . . . 95 

XXXIII. Like Hermit poor 98 

XXXIV. With my Flockes as walked I . . . .101 
XXXV. The Rose of England 103 

XXXVI. SirEglamore 106 

XXXVII. Trole the Cannikin 109 

XXXVIII. The Cuckoo's Song .111 

XXXIX. The Hunter's BaUade . . . . ,. 112 

XL. Martin said to his Man 115 

XLL The BaUad of the Fox 118 

XLII. Sing, Gentle Butler, Balla Moy .... 120 

\ XLIII. A West-Country Ballad 122 

\ XLIV. The Fayries' Daunce 125 

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^ XLV. The Satyres' Daunce 126 

I XLVI. The Urchins' Daunce 127 

XL VII. Tosse the Pot 128 



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XL VIII. Methinkes one Tooth is dry . . . . . . 130 

XLIX. The Morris Dancers 132 

L. The Manner of the World now a days . . .134 

LI. The Ape, the Monkey, and Baboone . . 135 

LII. Kemp's Journey into France . . . .136 

LIII. Love will find out the Way .... 137 

LIV. A May-Day BaUad . . . . . .144 

LV. The Rural Daunce about the May-pole . . 146 
LVI. The North-Countryman's Song on his View of Lon- 
don Sights 151 S 

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LVII. A Song for Autolycus 156 < 

LVIII. BaUad on Symon Wadloe 158 ^ 

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LIX. The Humours of Bartholomew Fak . . . 160 ^ 

LX. The New Humours of Bartholomew Fan- . . 162 

LXI. A Song on Bartholomew Fail" .... 163 

LXII. The Countryman's Ramble through Bartholomew 

Fair 166 

LXIII. Tobacco is an Indian Weed . . . . 170 ,^ 



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THE CONTENTS. 



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j LXIV. The Praise of Trinidado 

^ LXV. Tobacco's a Musician 

LXVI. Ale and Tobacco 

LXVII. The Triumph of Tobacco 

LXVIII. Old England turn'd New 

LXIX. The Lamentation of a Bad Market . 
LXX. London's Ordinary ; or, Every Man in his Humour 

LXXI. A Tom-a-Bedlam Song 

LXXII. The Plain-Dealing Man 

^ LXXIII. The Plain-Dealing Woman ; or, Come Shepherds, 

) Deck your Heads 

\ LXXIV. The Praise of Christmas . . . . . 

\ 

\ L'Envoy . . 

> Additional Notes and Illustrations 



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91 iltttle Booli of ^onss 
aitti Ballatis. 




INTRODUCTION. 

HE Little Book or Songs 

AND Ballads, now offered 

to the public, is a gathering 

from various sources, and 

may be likened unto the 

wallet of one of those minstrels of the olden 

time, who 

" Walken fer and wyde, 
Here, and ther, in every syde, 
In many a diverse londe." 

It does not indeed contain the "lay of chi- 
valry," or the "romance of price;" but in it may 
be found rhymes adapted to the old tavern-min- 



2 INTRODUCTION. 

strelsy used by harpers, who gave " a fit of mirth 
for a groat ;" " Carols for Christmas ;" " Poems 
for Bride Ales/' as Puttenham, the arch-critic of 
Elizabeth's reign, has it ; and " diverse small 
rimes/' 

" Sum of love, and sum of wo, 
Sum of joie, and mirthe also." 

The productions of the minstrels were of 
various kinds. The romance of chivahy seems 
principally to have been composed for the 
gratification of knights and nobles. Thus 
they frequently commence with an invitation 
to the " Lords," to listen and attend ; whilst, 
on the other hand, it is probable that those 
in the lower class of life were amused with 
lays of a nature more readily addressed to their 
feelings and occupations, and which were oc- 
casionally satirical, and generally ludicrous. ^ 



INTRODUCTION. 



I their intimate connection with the musical ser- 

> vice of the church, has not, we think, been pro- 

\ perly investigated, or the quahfications which 

\ 

> . 

\ 

) 2 jiqUcs of Ancient English Poetry. 



\ Of these the quaint and merry SkeUon thus 

\ sings : — 

\ 

\ " Though my rime be ragged, 

J Tattered and jagged, < 

\ " Eudely rain-beaten, \ 

\ Knsty, moth-eaten, \ 

X If ye take well therewith, \ 

\ It hath in it some pith." \ 

I ... ' > 

\ Concerning this wandering class of men, the \ 

> . . \ 

] minstrels, much has been written ; but perhaps \ 

\ after all Bishop Percy was not far wrong when \ 

\ he designated them as "an order of men in the \ 

I middle ages, who united the arts of poetry and ] 

] music, and sung verses to the harp, of t/ieir own \ 

\ comjposingy '^ \ 

I The monastic education of the minstrels, and 



4 INTRODUCTION. 



the learned bishop has awarded them would 
hardly have been disputed.^ 

"In all countries and in all ages the first and 
principal application of music has been uniformly 
\ to the purposes of religious worship ; and in 
^ order to provide a competent succession of per- 
l sons capable of singing the different portions in 
the church service, and to guard it from corrup- 
tions, in consequence of the ignorance of those 
by whom it was sung, it was found necessary 
that music should form a part of the clerical 
education. It was therefore taught in the 
schools belonging to the monasteries, to such of 
the children of the neighbourhood as were sent 
thither for education ; the system of instruction 
in which appears to have consisted of learning J 
the psalms, probably by heart, and acquiring the 

3 For an impartial review of the well-known dispute between Bishop 
Percy and "Mister" Ritson, see the Introductoiy Essay prefixed 
to the last edition of Sir Walter Scott's Minstrelsy of the Scottish 
Border. 



INTRODUCTION. 



principles of music, singing, arithmetic, and 

grammar. By this method, boys were, from 

time to time, procured for the service of the 

choir, and a succession of singers secured to fill 

up such vacancies as might be occasioned by 

\ deaths ; for some of these boys, when their voices 

\ broke, perhaps betook themselves to the church 

\ as their profession, embraced the monastic habit 

and rule, and became ecclesiastical members of 

> the foundation where they had been educated. 
J Others, on the contrary, disliking the monastic 

restraint, and availing themselves of their musical 
\ education, applied to music as their profession, 
\ and were occasionally employed in the monas- 

> teries, to assist in the choir on Saints' days and 
\ high festivals, wlien a more solemn service was 

performed, and a greater number of performers 
\ required. 

I " In the intermediate space, these laymen sub- 
\ sisted by travelling about from the com-t or palace 



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INTRODUCTION. 



of one prince or nobleman to that of another, to 
entertain the lord and his guests in the character 
of a minstrel, by singing legends of the saints in 
verse, historical ballads, romances in verse, and 
other vocal compositions, written aiid set to music 
hy themselves, and which they also sung, accom- 
panying themselves at the same time on some 
musical instrument. 

" Between the common ' violar ' and the cha- 
racter of the minstrel there existed this wide 
difference, that, while the former might be justly 
ranked with the lowest order of the people, the 
latter had the benefit of such a regular education, 
as would have qualified him for a profession of 
comparative learning and elegance.^ In the 
schools of the monasteries, the minstrel had 
learnt something of the theoretical principles of 

* We read in the old romance of Launfel, 

" They had menstralles of moche honour, 
Fydelers, sytolyrs, and trompeters." 
Thus clearly showing the distinction between the educated minstrel and 
iUiterate performers upon instruments. 



INTRODUCTION. 



music, the practical part of singing, and the I 
elements of grammar; including also, perhaps l 
as much knowledge of poetry as was sufficient I 
for the composition of a song or ballad. Persons i 
already acquainted with the principles of music, 
could find little difficulty in acquiring sufficient j 
skill to play on the viol, or some such instrument, i 
a simple melody ; and the whole of this together 
formed a sufficient body of theoretical science \ 
and practical skill, to enable them to compose 
and play a variety of simple tunes. Like the 
ecclesiastics, these men must have been disgusted 
with the monotony of the plain chant ; and that 
disposition to hilarity and merriment which they 
appear to have possessed, would natm'ally lead \ 
them to the composition of gay and lively melo- \ 
dies. These they no doubt produced by making \ 
variations on the church melodies ; a method \ 
known to those skilled in church music, by the \ 
name of Descant. Extendinsr their skill still 



8 INTRODUCTION. 



further, they at length formed melodies of more 
originality, and became in time the sole authors 
of the music, as well as of the words, of the com- 
positions tvhich they sung and played. 

"Thus qualified by their education to teach 
what, it must be confessed, none were likely 
better to understand, it is no matter of surprise, 
that the minstrels and monks should have been, 
for some centuries, the only teachers of music in 
Europe. Travelling from place to place, and 
from the court of one prince to that of another, 
as the minstrels particularly did, they had oppor- 
\ tunities of disseminating the principles of musical 
\ erudition; and in proportion to the degree of 
\ elegance and politeness to which their auditors 
\ had arrived, would be the disposition of those 
J who heard their performances, to cultivate and 
practise the arts of music and poetry." ^ 

5 An Essay on Minstrelsy, by John Sidney Hawkins, Esq., F, S, A. 
{M'$>. penes the Editor.) 



INTRODUCTION. 



The minstrels at one period were of " moche 
\ honour," and of " great admittance " in the 
houses of the nobiUty. We have a curious 
picture of this in the romance of Orp/ieo, who, 
when he is questioned by the king of the fairies 
how he had the audacity to enter his palace, 
replies, — 

" Syre, I trow wele 



< I ame bot a pore mynstrelle, 

I And 3 it it ys the maner off us 

I For to seke to gret lordes hous ; 

> And tlioff we not welcome be, 

> Zit we bebovyeth to prefere oni* gle." 

I The minstrels were frequently rewarded with 

> gold chains or cups ; but robes and garments 
I were the more usual presents. In the curious 
j poem entitled The Vision of Piers Ploughman, 
\ (a. d. 1362) a minstrel thus describes himself: — 



I am a mynstrall, 

My name is Activa-vita ; 

AI ydelnesse icb batie, 

For of actif is my name : I 



10 INTRODUCTION. 



A wafrer, wol ye wite, 
And serve manye lordes, 
And fewe robes I fonge, 
Or furrede gownes. 
Coiithe I lye to do men laughe, 
Thanne lacchen I sholde 
Outlier mantel or monie 
Amonges lordes or mynstrals." 

In the romance of Sir Isumbras it is said 
that — 

*' He luffede glewmene wele in haulle, 
He gafe tlieme robis riclie of palle, 
Bothe golde and also fee." 

In the romance of Sir Begrevant we read 

that — 

" Mynstrallus hade in halle 

Grete gyftys witballe, 
Eycli robus of palle, 
"With gamementus hale." 

And in another part of the same we are told 
that — 

" And c. pound and a stede 
He send the mynstralus to mede, 
Off gyffte was he never gnede, 
ffor wele nor for wo !" 



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INTRODUCTION. 1 1 



"In later times/' as Mr.Tytler justly observes,^ 
'* the clergy were the bitter enemies of the min- 
strels, whom they considered as satirical rivals 
or intruders, who carried off from the chm^h 
\ the money which might have been devoted to 
\ more pious and worthy uses. They talk of them 
as profligate, low-bred buffoons, who blow up 
\ their cheeks, and contort their persons, and play 
on horns, harps, trumpets, pipes, and moorish 
flutes, for the pleasure of their lords, and who, 
moreover, flatter them by songs and tales, and 
adulatory ballads, for which their masters are not 
ashamed to repay these ministers of the prince 
of darkness with large sums of gold and silver, 
and with rich embroidered robes." 

At the period of the Reformation, when the 
production of songs and ballads were passing 
I from the hands of the then neglected minstrels, 
^ a class of composition arose which received the 

I ^ History of Scotland, vol. ii, p. 373. 



12 INTUODUCTION. 



appellation of " King Henry's Mirth," or " Free- 
men's Songs," a few of the most cm-ious of which 
we have included in the following pages. Henry 
the Eighth, whose principal object throughout 
his reign seems from his conduct to have been 
pleasure, and the gratification of his own pro- 
pensities, had a particular taste for music. HaU 
tells us that during his progresses he exercised 
himself daily in singing, playing on the recor- 
ders, flute, and virginals; and also in '' settyng 
of songes, and makyng of ballettes."^ And from 
the same authority we learn that ^'he did set ij 
goodly masses, every of them fyve partes, which 
were song oftentimes in hys chapel, and after- 
wardes in diverse other places ." ^rasmus also 

7 Chronicle, An. 2, Henry VIII. 

8 Playford, in his Introduction to the Skill of Musick, ed. 1670, says, 
" King Henry the Eighth did much advance musick in the first part of 
his reign, when his mind was more intent upon arts and sciences, at 
which time he invited the hest masters out of Italy and other countries, 
whereby he grew to great knowledge therein, of which he gave testi- 
mony in composing, with his own hand, two entire services, of five and 
six parts, which were often sung in his chappel." 



^ Printed in Sir John Hawkins's History of MiisicJc, vol. ii. p. 534. 

^•^ Printed in the ArchcBologia, vol. xxviii, pp. 96-151, from the ori- 
ginal MS. in the possession of Sir Thomas PhiUipps, Bart. The passage 
in the text was kindly pointed out to me, some years since, by the late 
Mr. Nicholas Carlisle. 



\ INTRODUCTION. 13 



tells US that lie composed offices for the church, 
and Bishop Burnet has vouched his authority for 
asserting the same. Henry was undoubtedly 
skilled in the art of practical composition; an 
evidence of which exists in the motet " Quam 
pulchra es et quam decora," contained in a MS. i 
collection of anthems, motets, &c., copied by 
John Baldwine of the choir of Windsor, a.d. ] 
1591. It is a composition for three voices, with \ 
these words — " Henricus Octavus " at the be- \ 
ginning, and these, " Quod Bex Henricus Octa- 
vus," at the end of the cantus, or upper part. ^ 

In the life of Sir Peter Carew, collected by 
John Vowell, a.d. 1575,^^ we are told, that " on 
his (Sir Peter's) introduction at the court of 
King Henry the Eighth, he continued, for the 



\ 14 INTRODUCTION. 

^ ^ 

^ most part, spending his time in all com"tly exer- 
cises, to his great praise and commendation, and, 

i especially, to the good liking of the king, who 

^ had a great pleasure in him, as well for his 

\ sundry noble qualities, as also for his singinge. 

( Eor the king himself being much delighted to 

I sing, and Sir Peter Carew having a pleasant voice, 

( the king would very often use him to sing with 

I him certain songs, which they called ' Freemen's 

I Songs,' as, namely, 

\ ' By the bancke as I lay ;' 

\ and 

' As I walked the woods so wylde.'" 

From the " Black Sanctus," concerning which 
an account is given in a letter of Sir John Har- 
\ rington to the Lord Treasurer Burleigh, printed 
i in the "Nugse Antiquse,"^^ and from "the Kyngs 
\ Balade," beginning 

" Passe tyme with good cumpanye," 

" Vol. ii, p. 82. The passage is as follows: — " In an old booke of my 
father's I read a merrie verse, which, for lack of my owne, I send by 



INTRODUCTION. 15 



printed in the following pages, it is plain that the 
king's disposition led him to music, as the means 
of promoting mirth. 

From about the time of Edward the Third, 
downwards, the monks and secular clergy, as 
well as the minstrels, had occasionally produced 
jocular songs and compositions of merriment ; 
but the encouragement given by Henry the 
Eighth to such productions, revived the practice 
with great vigour. This circumstance induced 
others to compose songs of the same kind, which, 
in reference to their origin, they termed King 



Mr. Bellot, to divert your lordshippe, when, as you say, weighty pain 
and weightier matters will yield to quips and merriment. This verse 
is caUed * The Blacke Sauntus, or Monkes Hymne to Saunte Satane, 
made when Kynge Henrie had spoylede then- Synginge.' My father 
was wont to say that Kynge Henrie was used, in pleasaunte moode, to 
singe this verse ; and my father, who had his good countenaunce, and a 
goodlie office in his courte, and also his goodlie Esther (a natural 
daughter of the kyng's) to wife, did sometyme receive the honour of 
hearing his own songe, for he made the tune, which my man Combe 
hath sent herewith ; having been much skilled in musicke, which was 
pleasing to the kynge, and which he learnt in the fellowship of good 
Maister Tallis, when a young man." 



16 INTRODUCTION. 



Henry s Mirth ; and in allusion to their lively 
and clieerful tendency, they denominated Free- 
men s Sonys}'^ The meaning of this last appel- 
lation has been a subject of inquiry with some, 
but has never been sufficiently explained. It 
appears, according to J. S, Hawkins, that these 
compositions were the invention of this country, 
and evidently for the reason before mentioned ; 
that they were unknown in Italy, and that 
Thomas Lord CromweU, Earl of Essex, who went 
from Antwerp to Home in 1510, was the first 
w^ho introduced them into that country. These 
circumstances are evidenced by the two following 
stanzas in Michael Drayton's Legend of Thomas 
CromweU, Earl of Essex, which was first printed 



^2 The propriety of this term wUl want no justification, when it is 
known, as is the fact, that in the Anglo-Saxon language, Freols dcey 
signifies an holiday or festival ; Freols gcer, the year of jubilee or freedom ; 
Freolsian, to keep or observe a festival or hohday, to rejoice, to shout 
for joy ; Freolstid, a festival time, or tide ; FreoUce, festive, lively, quick, 
merry, froUc ; and Freols, a feast, festival, or hohday, mui;h, pleasant- 
ness, joUity. — See Somner's Saxon Glossary. 



INTRODUCTION. 17 

\ in quarto, in 1609, and afterwards inserted in 
I Higgins's Mir tout of Magistrates : 

\ " The good successe th' affaires of England found, 
i Much prais'd the choice of me that had been made ; 

For where most men the depth durst hardly sound, 

I held it nothing boldly through to wade 
My selfe, and through the straitest waies I woond ; 
So could I act, so well I could perswade, 
As meerely joviall, me to mirth applie, 
Compos'd of freedome and alacritie. 

Not long it was ere Eome of me did ring, 

(Hardly shall Eome so full daies see again) 
Of Freemen's Catches to the Pope I sing, 

Which wan much licence to my countrimen. 
Thither the which I was the first did bring, 
That were unknowne to Italy till then. 

Light humours them when judgment doth direct. 
Even of the wise win plausible respect." 

The reign of the maiden Queen gave the death- 
j blow to the long sinking race of English min- 
^ strels, and an edict went forth, pronouncing 
I them all, of whatever class, " rogues, vagabonds, 
I and sturdy beggars." 



2§ 



18 INTRODUCTION. 



" They are accounted vagrant roges 

By act of parliament, 
What reason why they should not then, 

Like roges, to jaile be sent * * * 
Except they doo belong to men 

Which are of high degree, 
As in that act by woords set downe 

Expressly we may see. 
To such, I think, but few of these 

Vain pipers doo pertain : 
To men so grave a shame it were 

Eond iidlers to maintain. 
A gi'eat disgi'ace it were to them 

Their cloth abrode to send. 
Upon the backs of them which doo 

Their life so lewdly spend." ^^ 

Still, in spite of the degradation of the min- 
strels, that species of entertainment which had 
been handed down from the ancient bards, was \ 
not wholly excluded from more genteel assem- I 



13 J Dialogue betwene Cuatome and Veritie, concerninge the Use and 
Abuse of Dauncinge and Mynstralsye. Imprinted by John Allde [1581]. 
The author of this excessively rare and amusing book was Thomas 
Lovell. — See Bibliotheca Heberiana, part iv ; and Mr. J. P. Collier's 
Extracts from the Registers of the Stationers' Company, vol. ii. 



INTRODUCTION. 19 



blies. The autlior of the Arte of English Poesie, 
speaking in relation to the society in which he 
moved, and he was one of Queen Ehzabeth's 
gentleman-pensioners, at a time when the whole 
band consisted of men distinguished by birth 
and fortune, he says, "We ourselves have written 
for pleasure, a little brief romance, or historical 
ditty, in the English tongue, in short and long 
metre, and by breaches or divisions (^. e. fits), to 
be more commodiously sung to the harp, in 
places of assembly, where the company shall be 
desirous to hear of old adventures and valiances 
of noble knights in times past, as those of King 
Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, 
Sir Bevis of Southampton, and others like/' 

As we have before said, our little Garland 
singeth not of the " deeds of noble knights," 
nor of the loves and pains of " gentle dames." \ 
'Tis but a collection of "diverse" scraps, gleaned 
from a variety of ancient Music Books both manu- 



20 INTRODUCTION. ^ 



script and printed; and although some pieces 
have been edited before, sometimes from the 
same original, it more frequently happens that 
our versions have been taken from new and in- 
dependent sources. We need scarcely make any 
apology or excuse for what we have done, as 
our labours tend neither "to good nor harm.'' 
Accept then, gentle reader, what we offer unto 
thee in kindness. It is but the amusement of 
a passing hour ; and, in the words of old Fabyan, 
the citizen chronicler of London, 

" Whoso liim lyketh these verses to rede. 

With favor I pray he'll them spell ; 
Let not the rudeness of them him lede 

To disprove this rhyme doggerell." 

E. R R. 

3, Augustus Square, 
Regents Park. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 



I. 
Sons in praise of ^Irtljur, l|rtnce of TOafes. 

A.D. 1501. 



The following Song is given from an ancient parchment 
book, consisting of early English songs in parts, in the pos- 
session of the editor. It was written and composed by 
"Maister Edmond Turges,"i and the MS. from which it is 
taken is in all probability the original. Another copy may 
be seen in the Eayrfax MS. (Add. MS. Brit. Mus. No. 5465.) 

Prince Arthur, the eldest son of Heniy VII, died April 
2d, 1502. Henry, his brother, "was created Prince of 
Wales and Earl of Chester in Parliament, by the girding on 
a sword, the putting a cap on his head, a gold ring on his 
finger, and a golden rod in his hand, 18th Eeb. 1503. An. 1. 
9 Henry YII." (See Sandford's Genealog. Hist.) 

A distinguishing mark of honour peculiar to the Prince of 
Wales consists of a plume of thi'ee ostrich feathers, with an 



^ This person was probably a near relation to a minstrel of the same 
name. In the Act of Resumption, 28th Henry VI, there is a proviso in 
favomr of John Turges, harpour with the Queen, for the reversion of an 
annuity of ten marks, after the death of Will. Langton, minstrel. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



ancient coronet, under whicli in a scroll is tlie well-known 
motto, " Kcfj Mzn," — "I serve ; " a device assumed by 
Edward tlie Black Prince after the famous battle of Cressy, 
in which he slew with his own hand John, king of Bohemia, 
the stipendiary of the king of France, in whose wars he was 
then serving; and it was from the head of the Bohemian 
monarch that Edward, then Prince of Wales, took such a 
plume and motto, and which have ever since, in remembrance 
of that event, been borne by his successors. 



From stormy wyndes and grevous wether, 
Good Lord preserve the ostrige fether. 

O blessed Lord of hevyn celestiall, 
Which formyd hast of thy most speciall grace, 

Arthur, om*e prynce, to us here terestriall, 
In honor to rayne ! Lord graunt hym tyme and ^ 
place. 

Which of alyaunce, 

Oure prynce of pleasaunce. 

Be in erytaunce. 

Of Ynglond and Fraunce, 

Ry3t eyre for to be ; 

Wherefore now syng we, 

From stormy wyndes, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 23 

Wherefore good Lord syth of tliy creacion 
Is this noble prince of ryall Hnage ; 

In every case be his preservacion. 
With joy to rejose his dewe enerytaunce. 

His ry3t to optayne. 
In honor to rayne, 
This eyre of brytayne, 
Of Castill, and Spayne, 
Ryjt eyre for to be ; 
Wherefore now syng we, 
From stormy wyndes, &c. 

Now good lady among the saynts all, 
Praye to the Sone, the second in Trinitie, 

For this yong prince, which is and daily shal be 
Thy servannt, with all his hart to fre. 

O celestiaU 
Moder maternall, 
Emprise infernall, 
Now we cry and call, 
His save gard to be ; 
Wherefore now syng we, 

From stormy wyndes, &c. 



24 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

II. 

Efjfe gmttll ©as tiabies. 

This mde, but once liigUy popular song, was evidently 
written about the year 1500, out of compliment to Ebzabetb, 
daughter of Edward lY, and consort of Heniy VII. Eliza- 
beth was herself called t/ie TFhite Rose, because she repre- 
sented the house of York, whose cognizance it was, and 
might be said metaphorically to have added that flower to 
the Hed Eose of the house of Lancaster, borne by her hus- 
band. It is given from the Fairfax MSS., a curious collection 
of English Songs, with the music, written about the year 
1500, now in the British Museum. (Add. MS., 5465.) 

It is thus mentioned in Gawin Douglas's 13th Prologue 
to his translation of Yirgil (1513) : 

" Thareto thir birdis singis in thare schawls, 
As menstralis playis ' The joly day now dawes' " 

Dunbar, about thirty years after Douglas, mentions it, and 
another tune besides, in a satirical Address " To the Mer- 
chantis of Edinburgh : " 

" Your common menstrales hes no tune. 
But ' Now the day daws' and ' Into June.' " 

The " profane song" of this title was converted to one of 
"the gude and godlie ballatis," about the time of the Eefor- 
mation. The first verse runs thus : 

" Hay ! now the day daUis, 
Now Christ on us caUis, 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 25 

I Now weltli on our wallis 

I Appeiiis anone : 

I Now tlie word of God rings, 

Wtilk is King of all kings ; 

Now Clu'istis flock sings, 

The night is neere gone." 
{DalzelVs Scottish Poems of the 16th Century, vol. ii, p. 180.) 

Alexander Montgomerv^ lias a set of verses on tlie same theme, 
commencing — • " Hay ! now the day dawis, 
The jolie cok crawis." 

Thus, also, in The Muses' Threnodie, a local poem, written at 

Perth in the reign of James VI, " Hey, the day now dawnes," \ 

is quoted as the name of a celebrated old Song ; and in " The \ 

Life and Death of the Piper of Kilbarchan, or the Epitaph of i 

Habbie Simpson," published in Watson's Collection of Scots < 

Foems, 1706, the following line occurs : \ 

" Now, who shaU. play, ' The day it daws ?' " \ 

These notices are extremely valuable, as proving that, at the \ 

commencement of the sixteenth century, there were songs J 

common to the hterate classes of both nations. Mr. Chambers < 

{Introduction to Scottish Songs, p. 18) suggests that the tune J 

of this Song was probably the Reveillee, commonly played by \ 

the pipers or town -minstrels throughout Scotland, to rouse \ 
the inhabitants to their daily labom\ 

This day now dawes, 
This gentill day dawes, 
And I must home gone. 



26 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

In a glorious garden grene, 
Saw I syttyng a comly quene ; 
Among the flowres that fresh byn, 
i She gadered a floure and set betwene ; 

I The lyly- white rose me thought I sawe. 

I And ever she sang, 

I This day now dawes, 

J This gentill day dawes, 

\ And I must home gone. 

\ In that garden be floures of hew, 

I The gelofir gent, that she well knew, 

\ The floure de luce she did on rewe. 

And said that whyte rose is most trewe. 
The garden to rule by ryght wis lawe, 
The lyly -white rose me thought I sawe. 
And ever she sang, 
This day now dawes, 
This gentill day dawes, 
And I must home gone. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 27 



III. 

J3allatr on tfje iWarrtage of JKarsaret STutior. \ 



The following not inelegant stanzas seem to have been oc- 
casioned by tbe marriage of Margaret, tbe daugbter of Henry 
VII, to James IV, king of Scotland, in 1503, of whom it is 
related, tbat having taken arms against bis own father, be 
imposed on himself the voluntary penance of continually 
wearing an iron chain about bis waist. 

It is taken from a small oblong volume of Engbsh and 
other songs, temp. Heniy VIII, in the King's Library, 
British Museum (Append, to Hoyal MSS. No. 58). 

The ceremonies wliich accompanied this marriage are too 
well known to need a comment here. Dunbar of Salton 
celebrated the nuptials in an allegory entitled " The Thistle > 
and the Eose," which is stiU admired as one of the happiest \ 
efforts of Scottish poetry. \ 



O fayre, fayrest of every fayre, 
Princes most pleasaunt and preclare, 
The lustiest on lyve that bene, 
Welcum of Scotland to be quene. 



28 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Yong tender plant of pulchritude, 
Descendith of imperial blood ; 
Fresh fragrant flower of fayrehode shene, 
Welcum of Scotland to be quene. 

Sweet lustie imp of bewtie clere, 
Moste mighty kings dowghter dere ; 
Borne of princes most serene, 
Welcum of Scotland to be quene. 

Welcum the rose both red and whyte, 
Welcum the flower of our delyte ; 
Our spirit rejoicing from the splene, 
Welcum of Scotland to be quene. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 29 

IV. 

I From a parckment book, temp. Henry YIII, in the pes- 

\ session of the editor. The music is in three parts by a com- 

^ poser who signs himself " Browne." Another copy of both 

< words and music is contained in the Fayrfax MS. in the 
British Museum (Add. MSS. No. 5465, fol. 102 b). On 

i the margin of the editor's MS. is written in a contemporary 

I hand — " In prayse of y^ kyngs sister." 

Margaret Meke, 

Whom I now seke, 
Ther is none lyke I dare well say ; 

So manerly, 

So curtesly, 

So prately. 
She delits allway. 

That goodly las, 

When she me pas, 
Alas ! I wote not where 

I go or stonde ; 

I thynke me bonde, 

In se in lond, 
To comfort her. 



3§ 



30 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Her lusty chere, 
Her eyes most dere, 
I know no fere 

In her beaute : 

Both Gate and Bes, 
Mawde and Anes, 
Sys is witnes 

Of her fetysnesse. 

My Margaret 
I cannot mete 
In feeld ne strete, 

Wofull am I ; 

Leve love this chaunce, 
Yom* chere avaunce, 
And let us daunce 

Herh my Lady? 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 31 

V. 

Satirical Song on tfje jHeminss. 



The following piece of satire is preserved in the Fairfax 
MS., wMcli once belonged to Ealph Thoresby, and is now 
among the additional MSS. in the British Museum (5465, 
fol. 114). Sir John HawMns, who has printed it with the 
music, teUs us that it " is supposed to be a satire on those 
dnrnken Flemings who came into England with the piincess 
Anne of Cleves, upon her marriage with Henry VIII." 
{History of Music, vol. iii, p. 2.) But the song probably 
relates to " rutterkyns " of a much earlier period. It is not 
unKkely to be the composition of Skelton. 

In the Interlude of Magnyfycence, Courtly Abusyon ex- 
claims — 

" Eutty bully, joly rutterkyn, heyda ! " 

Dyce's Skelton, vol. i, p. 249. 

" Rutter,'" says the Eev. A. Dyce, " which properly means 
a rider, a trooper (Grerm. reiter, renter), came to be employed, 
Kke its diminutive rutterlcin, as a cant term, and with various 
significations. (See Hormanni Vulgaria, sig. q. iii, ed. 1530; 
Drant's Horace his Arte of Foetrie, &c., sig. D ii, ed. 1567.)" 

HoYDA, joly rutterkyn, hoyda, 
Lyke a rutterkyn hoyda. 



32 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Rutterkyn is com vnto oure towne, 
In a cloke without cote or gowne, 
Save a raggid hode to kover his crowne, 
Like a rutter hoyda. 

Eutterkyn can speke no engHssh, 
His tonge rennyth all on buttyrd fyssh, 
Besmerde with grece abowte his disshe, 
Like a rutter hoyda. 

Rutterkyn shall bryng you all good luk, 

A stoup of bere up at a pluk, 

Till his brayne be as wyse as a duk, 

Like a rutter hoyda. 

When rutterkyn from borde will ryse, 
He will piss a galon pott full at twise, 
And the ouerplus undir the table of the newe 
gyse, 

Like a rutter hoyda. 




m 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 33 

VI. 

Itttts ?genrg FE3IE*s 3Expet(ttton to Jrance. 

The Song here printed relates to the war with France, 
when Henry, joining the confederacy, interfered with the 
quarrel between Louis the Twelfth of Trance and Pope Julius 
the Second. The red rose was King Henry's badge of cog- 
nizance; the Emperor Maximilian wore it at the siege of 
Terouenne, as his volunteer. 

From the -volume in the Editor's library, mentioned on 
p. 29. Another copy, but without the music, is in Cotton. 
MS., Domit. A, xviii.^ 



The Rosse wolle in to Fraunce spryng, 

Almyghty God hym thyder bryng, 

And save this flour whyclie ys our kyng : 

This Rosse, this Rosse, this ryall Rosse, 

Whych ys callyd a nobyll thyng, 

The flowr of Englond, and souldier kyng. 

Thys Apryll showrys, wyche ar ful swet, 

Hath bownd thys Rosse, not yet ful blowne ; 

In Fraunce he will hys levys schote, 

Hys ryzth to conquer, hys enemy s to knowne. 

3 See Sir Henry Ellis's Original Letters, first series, vol. i, p. 79. 



34 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Thys Rosse, that ys of color rede, 

Wyll seke hys enmys bothe far and wyde, 

And wytli Ms enemys lie woll Fraunce light. 

Sent Gorge protector be liys good gyd. 

God send this flowyr wer he wolde be, 

To sprede hys fiowrs to hys rejoysing, 

In Erance to have the vyctory ; 

All Englond for hym schal pray and syng. 

Jhesu and Mary, full of myght, 

God be hys gyde in all hys ryzth ; 

Swet Sent Gorge onr Ladye's knyte 

Save Kjng Hary both be day and nyght. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 35 



VII. 

Satirical Sons on jFriar ©astftp. 

Erom one of Hemy tlie Eightli's own MSS. (Append, to 
royal MSS. No. 58) preserred in tlie British Museum. 
Another curious Satirical Song, in alternate rh}Tnes of EngKsli 
and Latin, against friars in general, is preserved in Trinity 
CoUege, Cambridge (liS. O. Q. 40.) 

The present Song is subscribed at the end " Quod Eaff 
Drake." 

Frer Gastkyn wo thou be, 

qui manes Jiic inpatria, 
For all that her supportyth the, 

thou makyst the way ad Tartara ; 
Tartary ys a place trewly, 

pro te et consimilibus. 
For hym that lyvyth in apostacy, 

absentyd a claustralihus ; 



36 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

A fysche to lyve all ways in lond, 

quod vere mirabilius, 
A frer sertayn tliat so doth stond 

amend, et mane tuis fratribus ; 
Lest the devyll for the do send, 

to present the Demonibus. 

Et fac cum consilio. 

For he that made these reimes, 

would all such were in pelago. 
In a bote full of holys, 

ut ibi cum doloribus, 
Ther myzth he ster and blowe the colys, 

tyll he were sub fluminibus. 
Show thys, I care not to whome, 

Priori vel Ejoiscopo, 
For all such frers schold byde at home, 

non varans Jiic in seculo. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 37 



VIII. 

The following Song is preserved, with tlie music in three 
parts, in a MS. once the property of Joseph Eitson the anti- 
quary, and now in the British Museum (Add. MSS. 5665.) 
It is without doubt the production, both words and music, of 
the royal tyrant, Hemy YIII, of whose skill in " making bal- S 
lades " we have given some proofs in the Introduction to the i 
present volume. I 

WedderbmTi, or whoever was the author of that curious I 
work T/ie Complai/nt of Scotland, 1548, mentions "Pastance ? 
with gude companye," as among the popular songs of Scot- 
land, in the early part of the sixteenth centuiy. 

Passetyme with good companye 
I love, and shall untyll I dye ; 
Grugge who wyll, but none deny, 
So God be plecyd, this lyfe wyll I : 

For my pastaunce, 

Hunt, syng, and daunce, 

My hert ys sett ; 
All godely sport, 
To my cumfort, 

Who shall me lett ? 



4 



38 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Youth wyll have nedes dalyaunce, 
Of good or yll some pastaunce, 
Companye me thynketh them best, 
All thouts and fantasy es to dygest. 

For ydleness, 

Ys chef mastres, 

Of vices all : 

Than who can say, 
But passe the day 

Ys best of all. 

Company with honeste, 
Ys vertu and vyce to flee ; 
Company ys gode or yll, 
But ev'ry man hath hys frewylle ; 
The best I sew, 
The worst eschew, 
My mynd shall be : 
Vertue to use, 
Vyce to refuse, 
I shall use me. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 39 



IX. 

.Song from tfje Enterlutre of tfje iiii lElemmts* 

An imitation of "The Kynges Balade," from a singular 
Interlude, entitled The Nature of the Four Elements, written 
about 1517, and printed by Jolm EastaU, probably in 1519. 
Tlie Song is accompanied by tbe music in score, and affords 
the earliest instance of a printed partition in this kingdom. 
It h^s entirely escaped the notice of our musical historians. 



Tyme to pas with goodly sport, 
Our spryts to revyve and comfort ; 
To pype, to synge, 
To daunce, to spryng, 
With pleasure and delyte, 
Following sensual appetyte. 




40 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

X. 

Sijoont is site antr til at ease. 



From an ancient volume once the property of Henry YIII, 
It is a collection of part songs used by tlie royal tyrant and 
his companions. It afterwards came into the hands of old 
John Heywood, the dramatist and epigrammatist, whose 
autograph it bears. A copy of the same may also be found 
in the Fayrfax MSS. (Add. MSS. Brit. Mus., No. 5465;) 

Jhoone is sike and ill at ease, 
I am full sory for Jhoon's disease ; 
Alak, good Jhoone, wliat may you please ? 
I shal bere the cost be swete sent Denys ! 

She is so prety in every degre. 
Good lord who may a goodlyer be, 
In favoure and in facion lo will ye se, 
But it were an angell of the Trinitie. 

Alak, good Jhoone, what may you please ? 

I shal bere the cost be swete sent Denys ! 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 41 

Her countynaunce with her lynyacion, 
To hyra that wolde of such recreacion, 
That God hath ordent in his first formacion, 
Myght wel be calld a conjuracion. 
Alak, good Jhoone, &c. 

She is my lytell prety one, 
What shulde I say ? my mynde is gone, 
Yff she and I were togethir alone, 
I wis she will not gyve me a bone. 

Alas, good Jhone, shal all my mone 

Be lost so sone ? ^ 

I am a fole, 

Leve this array. 

Another day 

We shall both play, 
When we are sole. ^ 



i. e., treat me with contempt, 
i. e. by ourselves. 



m<^ 



4§ 



42 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XL 

E }|at» botlj JHonie antr a Jrentre. 

^ The following subtle caution, " never to lend money to a ^ 

< friend," is from the old music-book before mentioned, with i 

i the autograph of John Heywood. It has been printed by < 

I Sir John Hawkins (vide Kidory of Music, vol. iii, p. 88), \ 

\ but fi'om a different copy. ^ 

I HAD both monie and a frende, 

Of neither though no store ; 
I lent my monie to my frende, 

And tooke his bonde therfore. 

I asked my monie of my frende^ 
But nawght save words I gott ; 

I lost my monie to keepe my frende, 
Por sewe hym would I not. 



But then if monie come, < 

And frende againe weare founde, \ 

I woulde lend no monie to my frende. 

Upon no kynde of bonde. \ 



x?^§ 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 43 



But, after this, for monie cometh, 
A frende witli pawne to paye, 

But when the monie should be had, 
My frende used such delay. 

That neede of monie did me force, 

My frende his pawne to sell. 
And so I got my monie, but 

My frende then from me fell. 

Sith bonde for monie lent my frende. 

Nor pawne assurance is, 
But that my monie or my frende, 

Therbye I ever misse. 

If God send monie and a frende. 

As I have had before, 
I will keepe my monie and save my frende. 

And playe the foole no more. 






s ! 



44 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XII. 

a Ca&eat agamst Ble Eumours. \ 

From an old music-book, temp. Henry VIII, which the | 

Editor purchased at the sale of J. Stafford Smith's library. \ 
The music was composed by Eobert Pend, a gentleman of 

Hemy the Eighth's royal chapel. He may also have been \ 

the author of the words. \ 



Considering this world, and th' increase of vyce, 
Stricken into dump, right much I mused. 

That no manner of man, be he ever so wyse, 
From all sorts thereof can be excused. 

s And one vyce there is, the more it is used, 
^ Mo inconveniens shall grow day by day. 

And that is this, let it be refused, 
I Geve no sure credens to every heresay. 

Lyght women's thoughts wyll runne at large. 
Whether the tayle be false or just ; 

Tydyngs of alehouse or Gravesend barge, 

Bere-bay tings, or barber's shopes, is not to 
trust. 



x^ 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



45 \ 



An enemies tayle is sone distrust, 

He shall perceve it parshall alway, 
To all the foresayd refrayn we must, 
I To geve sure credens to every heresay. 

Though heresay be trew, as perchaunce may fall, 

Yet syr not thy credens is high. 
And though the teller seem right substantial, 
j And teU but heresay, why may he not lye ? 

I 

I Then betwyxt light credens and a tonge hasty, 
I Surely the gyltles is cast away, 

Condemnyng the absent that is unworthy, 
I So passed a lyfe from heresay to heresay. 
I 

\ Good Lord ! how some wyll wyth a loud voice 
TeU a tale after the best sorte. 

And some herers how they wyU rejoyce, 
I To here of theyr neybours ill report ! 

I As though it were a matter of comfort, 
I Herein our charitie doth dekay, 
I And some maketh it but game and sport. 
To tell a lye after the heresay. 



46 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Tell a good tale of God or some saynt, 
i Or of some mirakles lately done ; 
\ Some wyll beleve it hard and stent, 
And take it after full lyght facyon. 

We here say Christ suffrid passion, 

And man shall revert to earth and clay, 

The rychest or strongest know not how soone, 
Beleve well now this, for true is that heresay. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 47 

XIII. 

5rije Complagnte cif a iLo&er. 

-^¥^^^^-' 

Prom an ancient MS. temp. Henry VIII, in the library of 
the editor. The music by which it is accompanied is the 
production of a composer named Thomas Fardyng, who 
appears to have been a gentleman of the Eoyal Chapel in the 
year 1511. The MS. formerly belonged to Sir John Hawkins, 
who has printed the following Song in the third volume of 
his History of Music. 

As I lay slepynge, 
In dremes fletynge, 
Ever my swetyng 

Is in my mynd ; 
She is so goodly, 
With locks so lovely, 

Such one can fynd. 

Her bewty so pure, 
It doth under lure 
My pore hart full sure. 

In governaunce ; 
Therfor now wyll I 
Unto hyr apply, 
And ever v^ill cry 

For remembraunce. 



48 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Her fayer eye persyng, 
My pore hart bledyng, 
And I abydyng 

In hope of neede ; 
But thus have I long 
Entwyned this songe, 
With paynes full stronge, 

And cannot spede. 

Alas, wyll not she 
Now shew hyr pytye, 
But thus wyll take me 

In suche dysdayne ; 
Methynketh I wys, 
Unkynde that she is, 
That byndeth me thus 

In such hard payne. 

Though she me bynde, 
Yet shall she not fynde 
My pore hart unkynd, 

Do what she can ; 
For I wyll hyr pray, 
Whiles I leve a day. 
Me to take for aye, 

For hyr owne man. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 49 



XIY. 

i%2tt Ijatl}^ lost })ur Mti^. 

The following Ballad possesses a tinge of humour rarely 
found in the productions of the early part of the sixteenth 
\ century. It is preserved among the King's MSS. in the 
I British Museum. {Append, to Royal MSS. No. 58.) 
\ In 1561-2 John Tysdale had a license for printing a 
BaUad, entitled "Kytt hath loste hyr Keye," which may 
I possibly be the one now given. 

< Kytt hathe lost hur keye, hur key, 

\ Goode Kytt hath lost hur key, 

\ She is so sorry for the cause, 

{ She wotts not what to say ; 

\ She wotts not what to say, goode Kytt, 

\ She wotts not what to say, 

\ Goode Kitt's so sorry for the cause, 

I She wotts not what to say. 



Goode Kytt she wept, I ask'd why so 
That she made all this mone ? 

She sayde, alas ! I am so woo, 
My key is lost and gone. 

Kytt hathe lost, &c. 



50 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Kytt, why did ye losse your key, 

Fore sothe ye were to blame, 
Now ev'y man to you will say, 

Kytt Losse Key is your name. \ 

Kytt hathe lost, &c. ? 

Goode Kytt she wept and cry'd, alas ! > 

Hur key she cowde not fynde ; > 

In faythe I trow in bowrs she was. 
With sum that were not kinde. 

Kytt hathe lost, &c. 

Now, farewell, Kytt, 1 can no more, 

I wott not what to say. 
But I shall pray to Gode therfore 

That you may fynde your key. 

Kytt hathe lost, &c. 



iHiHiiittiiiii 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 51 



\ XV. 

I 3S;ttt Ijati) lost Ijer Eeg. 

? (another version.) 



I We have here an answer or continuation of the preceding 

> Ballad. It is taken from Mr. Collier's Extracts from the 

\ Register's of the Stationers^ Company, vol. i, p. 55. The 

\ learned Editor gives it from a MS. 

\ ■^^%^'^' 

Kit hatli lost her key, 
I But I have one mil fytt 

) Her locke, if she will try, 

And doe not me denie : 
I I hope she hath more wytte. 

My key is bright, not rusty, 

It is soe oft applied 
To lockes that are not dusty, 
Of maydens that are lusty, 

And not full fillde with pride. 



52 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Then, Kitt, be not too prowde, 

But try my readie key, 
That still hath bene allowde 
By ladyes faire a crowde. 
The best that ere they see. 

You can but try, and than, 
If it fitts not, good bye : 

Go to some other man. 

And see if anie can 

Doe better, Kitt, then I. 

But neere come backe to mee, 

When you are gone away, 
For I shall keepe my key 
For others, not for thee : 
Soe, either goe or stay. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 53 



I XYI. 

I Bg a Bmkt as K lag. 



This is one of those Ballads stated by Laneliam to have 



I been in the possession of Captain Cox, (See his Letter from ] 

\ KenihcortJi, 1575.) It is, however, without any other merit \ 

\ than antiquity, judging from the following version, taken < 

\ from a MS. temp. Heniy YlII, preserved in the British < 

I Museum. (Append, to Casley's Cat. of Eoyal MSS., No. 58.) \ 

] This Ballad is also noticed, in conjunction with many others, 

I in Wager's cmious Interlude, The longer thou livest, the more '■ 

I FooU thou art, piinted, "\vithout date, in 1569 or 1570. (See \ 

\ Collier's Extracts frmii the Registers of the Stationers'' Com- ] 

I pany, vol. ii, p. 192.) i 

) \ 



> By a bancke as I lay \ 

I mnsinge my selfe alone — Hey how ! \ 

I A byrd's voyce \ 

I dyd me rejoyce, ^ 

I Syugyng before the day, 

And methought in her lay 

I she sayd wynter was past — Hey how ! 

I Ban dyry, cum dan, dan, &c. 



5 § 



54 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

The master of musyke, 

the lusty nyghtyngale — Hey how ! 
Full meryly 

and secretly 
She syngyth in the thycke, 
And under her brest a prycke, 

to kepe her fro slepe — Hey how ! 

Ban dyry, cum dan, dan, &c. 

Awake, therefore, young men, 
all ye that lovers be — Hey how ! 

This monyth of May, 
soo fresh, soo gay, 

So fayre be seld on few 

Hath floryshe ylke adew ; 

grete joy yt ys to see — Hey how ! 

Ban dyry, cum dan, dan, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 55 

XVII. 

Bs a Batxcfte m E lag. 

(another yersion.) 

The following version of tlie preceding BaUad is taken 
from a rare musical miscellany, entitled Deuteromelia, or the 
Second Tart of Mustek's Melodie, or Melodius Musicke of 
Pleasant Roundelaies, &c., 1609. 

The couplet given in Wager's Interlude is as follows : 

" By a banke as I lay, I lay, 
Musinge on tilings past, hey how !" 

which, it will be observed, agrees better with the more modern 
than the ancient copy. 

At the end of the only copy known to exist of a Collection 
of Secular Songs, printed in 1530, a Song is inserted in MS. 
beginning with the same words, but containing a laboured 
panegyric upon Heniy the Eighth. The Editor has not seen 
this copy, or it would have been included in the present httle 
volume. 



By a bancke as I lay, 

musing on a thing tliat was past and gone ; 
Hey ho ! In the merry month of May, 

O some what before the day, 
Me thought I heard it the last. 



56 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

O the gentle Nightingale ! 

the lady and mistres of all musicke ; 
She sits downe ever in the dale, 

singing with her notes small, 
Quavering them wonderfull thicke. 

O for joy my spirits were quicke 

to heare the sweet bird how merrily she 
could sing. 
And said, good Lord defend 

England, with thy most holy hand, 
And save noble James our king ! 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. 57 

XYIII. 



This pretty little Song, from a favoiired lover, in praise of 
Ms mistress, is preserved in a volume of Songs and Music m 
the Britisli Museum {Append, to Royal MSB., No. 58). It is 
one of tliose mentioned by Moros in tlie Interlude of The 
longer thou livest the more Toole thou art : 

" I can sing a song of robin redbreast, 
And my Me pretie nigbtingale." 

And farther on, in the same play, he sings the first couplet. 



The lytyll prety nyghtyngale, 

Among tlie levys grene, 
I wolde I were wyth hyr all nyght, 

But yet ye wote not whome I mene. 

Tlie nyghtyngale sat on a brere, 

Among the thornys sharpe and keyn, 

And comfort me wyth mery cher', 
But yet ye wot not whome I mene. 



58 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



She dyd aper' all on hur' keynd, 

A lady ryght well be seyne, 
With wordys of love tolde me hur mynde, 

But yet ye wot not who me I mene. 

Hyt dyd me goode upon hur to loke, 
Hur corse was closyd all in grene, 

Away frome hur hert she toke, 
But ye wot not whome I mene. 

Lady, I cryed wyth rufull mone, 

Have mynd of me that true hath bene, 

For I love none but you alone. 

But yet ye wot not whome I mene. 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. 59 

XIX. 

I fjaire ittn a Joster^ long. 



s MoROs, the Vice, Fool, or Jester, of the ancient interlude, 
} . ^ . i 

J The longer tliou livest the moreFoole tliou art, printed in 1569 \ 

\ or 1570, enumerates among his scraps of Songs, \ 

^ " There dweUeth a joUy foster here by west." \ 

\ The following, taken from a MS., temp. Hemy VIIL, 
I (Add. MS. 5665, fol. 50, b. Brit. Mus) may perhaps be a 
\ fragment of the ballad quoted. 

] Y have been a foster long and meney day, 
') My locks ben hore ; 

I shall hange up iny home by the grene wode 

spray, \ 

I Foster will y be no more. < 

Alle the whiles that y may my bowe bende, '< 

\ Shall y wedde no wyffe ; \ 

I shall bygge me a bonre atte the wodes ende, < 

There to lede my lyffe. \ 



i. e. Forester. 



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XX. 






I cannot come cbcrg Jiag to tooo. 


1 




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\ The 


following little piece, of the time of Henry the 


Eighth, 1 



is preserved on a loose sheet (perhaps torn from a book) 
in the possession of the Editor. It is printed in the late 
Mr. J. Stafford Smith's valuable work Musica Antiqua, 1812, 
but very imperfectly. 

We are inclined to hazard a conjecture that this " Wooing 
Song" is the parent stem of two or three Scottish Ballads. 
One preserved in David Herd's Collection begins as follows : 

" I hae layen three hemng a' sa't ; 

Bonnie lass, gin ze'll tak me, tell me now ; 
And I hae brew'n three pickles o' ma't. 
And I cannae cum ilka day to woo." 

Another, perhaps a fragment of the same, is given by Lord 
Hailes, in the notes to his Selections from the Bannatyne MS. 

" I ha a wie lairdschip down in the Merse, 
Lass an ye loe me, tell me now, 
The nynetenth pairt of a gusse's gerse. 
And I wo' na cum every day to woo." 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 61 

Gawin Douglas in tlie 12th prologue of his translation of 
Virgil (1513) has the following passage : — 

" — our awin native bird, gentil dow, 
Singand on her kynd, / come hither to wow" 

which may possibly aUude to the following. 

Joan, quoth Jolin, when wyll this be ? 

Tell me when wilt thou marrie me, 

My come and eke my calfe and rents. 

My lands and all my tenements ? 

Saie Joan, quoth John, what wilt thou doe ? 

I cannot come every daie to woo. 



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62 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XXI. 

a SEooms Song of a leoman of Stent's Son, 



The following, upon the same subject as the preceding, is 
taken from the rare musical collection entitled, Melismata, 
Musicall Phansies, fitting the Court, Citie, and Country 
Humours. Lond., printed by William Stansby, 1611, 4to, 



X I have house and land in Kent, 
I And if you 1 love me, love me now ; 

\ Two-pence halfe-peny is my rent, — 
I cannot come every day to woo. 

Chorus, — Two-pence halfe-peny is his rent, 

And he cannot come every day to w^oo. 

Ich am my vather's eldest zonne, 

My mother eke doth love me well ; 
For ich can bravely clout my shoone, 
J And ich full well can ring a bell. 

^ Ch, — For he can bravely clout his shoone, 
\ And he full w^ell can ring a bell. 



CJi. — And eke thou hast his hart in hold, 
And in his mind seemes passing rare. 



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< __^ ) 

< ~" ) 

I •> 

My vather he gave me a hogge, > 

\ My mouther she gave me a zow ; > 

< I have a God- vather dwels there by, ] 

< And he on me bestowed a plow. \ 

I Ck. — He has a god-vather dwels there by, \ 

i And he on him bestowed a plow, ^ 



\ One time I gave thee a paper of pins, \ 
\ Anoder time a taudry lace ; 

I And if thou wilt not grant me love, ] 

\ In truth ich die bevore thy vace. \ 

{ C/i. — And if thou wilt not grant his love, | 

In truth hee'le die bevore thy vace. \ 



Ich have beene twise our Whitson lord, 
Ich have had ladies many vare ; 

And eke thou hast my heart in hold. 
And in my minde zeemes passing rare. 



64 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Icli will put on my best white sloppe, 
And ich will weare my yellow hose. 

And on my head a good gray hat. 
And in 'tich sticke a lovely rose. 

Ch. — And on his head a good gray hat, 
And in 't heele sticke a lovely rose. 

Wherefore cease off, make no delay, 
And if you'le love me, love me now ; 

Or els ich zeeke zome other oder where — 
For I cannot come every day to woo. 

Ch. — Or els hee'le zeek zome oder where, 
For he cannot come every day to woo. 






SONGS AND BALLADS. 65 

XXIL \ 

c 

® ©eatfj, rocte me asleepe. \ 

From a MS. temp. Henry YIII, in the possession of the \ 
Editor. It has been imperfectly printed, fi*om a different \ 
MS., by Sir John Hawkins and Kitson : the former ascribed \ 
it to Anne Boleyn, and the latter to her brother, Lord Eoch- \ 
ford. There is no good evidence on either side. (See Black- \ 
wood's Magazine for Oct. 1838, p. 466.) 

Eichard Edwards was the author of a ditty entitled " The 
Soul's Knell," which, we believe, is not known to exist. The 
title would lead us to expect something like the following. 

O Death, rocke me asleepe, 
Bringe me to quiet reste, 
Let pass my weary giiiltles ghost 

Out of my carefull brest : 
Toll on the passinge bell, 
Ring oat my dolefuU knell, 
Let thy sound e my death tell : 
Death doth drawe ny, 
There is no r erne die. 



My paynes, who can expres ? ^ 

Alas ! they are so stronge : 

My dolor will not suffer strength j' 

My lyfe for to prolonge ; \ 



Q6 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Toll on the passinge bell, 
Ring out my dolefuU knell, 
Let thy sounde my dethe tell : 

Deatli doth drawe ny. 

There is no remedie. 

Alone in prison stronge, 
I wayte my destenye ; 
Wo worth this cruel hap that I 

Should taste tliis miserie. 

Toll on the passinge bell, 

Ring out my dolefull knell. 

Let thy sounde my dethe tell : 

Death doth draw ny, 

There is no remedie. 

Earewell my pleasures past, 

Welcum my present payne, \ 

I fele my torments so increse, | 

That lyfe cannot remayne. 

Cease now the passinge beE, | 

Rong is my dolefull knell, j 

For the sound my dethe doth tell : ^ 

Death doth drawe ny, \ 

There is no remedie. I 

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SONGS AND BALLADS. 67 < 

XXIII. 



\ PuTTENHAM, mhi's, Arte of English Poetry, 1589, speak- 

\ mg of one Gray, says, "what good estimation did he grow 

) into with King Heniy [the Eighth] and afterwards with the 

I Duke of Somerset, protectoui-, for making certaine merry \ 

[ Ballads, whereof one chiefly was The Hunte is up, the Hunte is 

\ up!" The following Song which is undoubtedly the one \ 

\ referred to, was written by William G-ray, whose name is \ 

( written, in an old hand, (upon the margin of the leaf con- > 

J taining it) in a copy of Eavenscroft's rare tract, entitled, i 

\ A Brief e Discourse of the true hut. neglected use of charactering \ 

\ the degrees [in Music] ly their perfection, imperfection, Spc, \ 

\ . 1614. \ 

X The same William Gray was the author of a poem, entitled, | 

] The fantasies of Idolatrie, inserted at length in the first \ 

\ edition of !Foxe's Acts and Monuments; and of several > 

\ broadsides, preserved among Dyson's Collections, in the < 

\ Library of the Antiquarian Society. Inthe Sloane MS. 1206, ^ 

there is a poem and an epitaph, connected with the subject of l 

\ the present notice. ^ 

A Song of " The Hunt is up " was known as early as 28 ^ 

^ Henry YIII, when infonnation was sent to the council against | 

) one John Hogon who, " with a crowd or a fyddyll " sung a [ 

\ song to the tune, which it appears had a political allusion. \ 



68 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

(See Mr. Collier's valuable edition of Shakespeare, vol. i, Add. 
Notes cclxxxviii). Another Ballad of " The Hunt is up " 
was licensed to W. Griffith in 1570, which possibly may be 
the spirited old Song given in Mr. CoUier's Extracts from the 
Registers of the Stationers' Company, vol. i, p. 129. 

Eeference is frequently made, in old authors, to the tunes 
of " The New Hunt's up," and " The Queene's Hunt's up." 
And in the Bodleian Libraiy (MS. Eawl. Poet 120) is pre- \ 
served a baUad beginning as foUows : — 

" The hunte is up, the hunte is up. 

Begins to seeme an old state dyttie ; 
The hunte is downe, the hunte is downe. 
Were far more new, and much more prettie. 

But old and new joyn'd both together. 

Would make a pretty catch or rounde ; 
The hunte is up, the hunte is downe, 
\ Hey ho, the hunt's up and downe." 

\ A religious parody of this popidar ditty has been pointed 

\ out in the Compendious Booke of Godly Songs : but there is 

\ another, by John Thorne of York, in a curious volume of old 

\ Songs which was formerly in Mr. Heywood Bright's CoUec- 

> tion (Add. MS. 15, 283), which has not been noticed. It 

\ begins : — 

\ " The hunt ys up, the hunt is up, 

I Loe ! it is allmost daye ; 

\ For Chryst our Kyng, is cum a huntyng, 

] And browght his deare to staye." 






SONGS AND BALLADS. 



69 



A " Hunt's up," it may be as well to mention, was a sort 
of general term for Hunting Songs, or rather an early song 
to rouse tlie party for the chase, something equivalent to the 
French Reveillee. It was afterwards generally used for any 
description of Morning Song. (See Cotgrave's Dictionary^ ia 
V. Eesveil) 



Cho. 



TThe hunt is up, the hunt is up, 
( Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up ; 

The birds they sing. 
The deare they fling. 

Hey, nony, nony — no : 
The hounds they crye. 
The hunters they flye, 

Hey, trolilo, troloKlo.^ 

The hunt is up, ut supra. 



7 Hey troly My lo, is a chorus or burden of great antiquity. It is 
mentioned in Piers Plowman (a.d. 1362) ; and in the curious Poem in 
the Bannatyne MS., CoJcelMe Sow, written about 1430. A Song, in 
which this burden occurs after every line, temp. Edward IV, is preserved 
in the Sloane MS., No. 1584. (See also Ritson's Anc. Songs, vol. ii, 
p. 8, ed. 1829.) This ^burden is also mentioned in The Complaynt of 
Scotland, 1548; in A New and Mery Enterlude, called the Triall of 
Treasure, 1567; in Laneham's Letter from Killinyworth, 1575, &c. 
An Antiquary somewhere asks if the elegant modern burden, beginning 



70 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

The wood resounds, 
To heere the hounds, 

Hey, nony, nony — no : 
The rocks report, 
This merry sport. 

Hey, trolilo, trololilo. 

( The hunt is up, the hunt is up, 
(Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up. 

Then hye apace, 
Unto the chase. 

Hey, nony, nony — no ; 
Whilst every thing. 
Doth sweetly sing. 

Hey, trolilo, trololilo. 

( The hunt is up, the hunt is up, 
Sing merrily wee, the hunt is up. 



" Toll de rol, lol de rol," is not a genuine descendant of the " troly 
loly lo " of the fourteenth century ? The old burdens of the songs of 
" merrie engolande " would form an interesting subject of research to 
the archgeologist. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 71 

XXIV. 

Come ober tije JSurne, Besgg, to me. 

This singular example of the " moralization," as it was 
termed, of an old ballad, is from a mutilated MS. of Henry 
tlie Eighth's time, in the Editor's possession, compared with 
and perfected by another copy in the library of Trinity College, 
Cambridge (0. 2, 53).^ The first verse only, together with 
the music, is contained in the curious collection of part-songs 
(formerly the property of Eitson), preserved in the British 
Museum (Add. MSS. 5465). 

In Wager's Comedie, The longer thou livest the more Foole 
thou art (1569 or 1570), Moros, one of the characters, enters, 
" counterfaiting a vain gesture and a foolish countenance, 
synging the foote of many songes, as fooles were wont," and 
amongst them we have — 

" Come over the boorne, Besse, 
My little pretie, Besse, 
Come over the boorne, Besse, to me." 

It also has the honour of being quoted in Shakespeare's 
Zear, actiii, sc. 6.^ 



^ See the Introduction to Mr. Wright's beautiful reprint of T'he 
Nutbrown Maid, published by Pickering. 

^ Mr. Charles Knight, in his note upon this Ballad {Library 
Shakspere, vol. ix, p. 104), says, " In a volume of MS. music in the 



72 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



In the library of the Society of Antiquaries is preserved a 
very curious dialogue, written by one William Birch, upon 
Queen Elizabeth's coming to the crown : it has no date, but 
must have been printed soon after that queen ascended the 
throne in 1558. It is entitled A Songe hetwene the Queue's 
Majestie and Englande, and commences as follows : 

" Come over the born, Bessy, 
Come over the born, Bessy, 
Swete Bessy come over to me ; 
And I shall thee take, 
And my dere lady make, 
Before all other that ever I see. 



Methinke I hear a voyce, 

At whom I do rejoyce. 

And answer thee how I shall : 

TeU me, I say, 

What art thou that bids me com away, 

And so earnestly doost me caU ? 



British Museum is a three-part song (a canon), supposed to have been 
written in the time of Henry VIII, beginning as the above, and which 
seems to be a version — or, possibly, the source — of it. The music is in 
the old notation, each part separate, and not * in score,' as erroneously 
stated in the index to the volume." Mr. Knight corrects one error, but 
makes another. We beg to inform him, that the composition is not " a 
canon," as he learnedly expresses it, but a point of imitation. This 
would hardly have been worth notice had Mr. Knight left the score alone. 



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{ SONGS AND BALLADS. 73 

I 

> " I am thy lover faire, 

I Hath chose thee to mine heir, 

\ And my name is mery Englande ; 

Therefore come away, 
And make no more delaye, 
Swete Bessie ! give me thy hande." 

" Here is my hand, 
My dere lover, Englande ; 
I am thine both with mind and hart, 
For ever to endure. 
Thou maiest be sure, 
Untill death us two do part." 

There are eighteen more stanzas in the original, which has 
this colophon, " Imprinted at London, by William Pickeringe, 
dwelling under Saynt Magnus Church." 

There is a traditional song still current in Scotland, be- 
ginning — " Blink o'er the burn sweet Betty." 



Come over the burne, Besse, 
Thou lytylle prety Besse, 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me 
The burne ys this world blynde. 
And Besse ys mankynd. 

So propyr I can none fynde as she ; 
She daunces, she lepys, 
And Crist stondis and clepys, 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 



74 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



The Jues are accusyd. 

And Peter refusyd, \ 

My frynds me abusyd for the ; < 

Yet shortly amend the, I 

And I shall defend the ; \ 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. J 



With thornes was I crowned, 
Sore bobbyd, sore woundyd. 

My moder then sownyd, and she 
Sawe for thy enchesoun 
I suffyrd grete tresoun ; 

Come over the bm-ne, Besse, to me. 

The cros, that [was] weyghty, 
Eor thy love that freghty 

Theese laydest, man, full sleightly on me ; 
Yet turne the, and I shall 
Thy synne forgeve all ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

My moder sore sobbyd 

When she sawe [me] bobbyd ; > 

Alas, they me robbyd, that she | 

Unnethes on fote stode, \ 

To se al] my rede blode ; I 

Come over the bm-ne, Besse, to me. | 

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SONGS AND BALLADS. 75 

Why delyst thowe so unkyndly ? 
To se me so frjradly 

Remember, and kyndly me se, 
Howe dayly I mone the, 
From syn to turne the ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

With othys my fiessh torne ys, 
Ye bobbe me with scornys, 

I speke (?) that forlone is, parde ; 
Yet herkyn my sawes. 
To lerne well my lawes ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

On crosse myne arme spred is, 
My body for-bled ys, 

With gall my mouth fed is, come se ; 
Renewed are my paynes, 
And voyde are my veynes ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

Thowe sekyst not what goode ys, 
Thowe doost that forboden ys, 

Thowe knowest what my reidde ys for the ; 



76 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

I suffer for thy smart, 
And yet thowe unkynd art ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

My moder not fayled, 
But bytterly wayled, 

My hands and feete nayled to tree, 
My here with blode cloddy, 
To-torne ys my body ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

The people, that were wode, 
Myn hert parsyd on rode. 

Out ranne water and blode for the ; 
And my body blode and wanne, 
Was made for thy sake mane ; 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 

Nowe, Besse, redresse the, 
And shortly confesse the 

Of synnes that opres the, let see ; 
The water hit fallyth. 
And Crist stondyth and callyth, 

Come over the burne, Besse, to me. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 77 



XXV. 

ancimt ILuUais Song. 



Preserved in a small oblong quarto volume of songs with 
music, printed, according to appearance, by Wynkyn de Worde, 
in 1530. It was from this curious volume, the first collec- 
tion of secular music printed in England, that Sir John 
Hawkins derived several of the early songs inserted, (but 
without stating the authority), in the third volume of his 
History of Music. (See Douce's Illustrations of Shakespeare, 
edit. 1839, pp. 362, 385 ; and also Ritson's Ancient Songs, 
edit. 1829 ; Dissertation, p. Ixxiii.) 

By by, lullaby, 

Kockyd I my chyld : 

In a dream late as I lay. 

Me thought I heard a maydon say 

And spak thes wordys mylde : 

My lytil sone with the I play, 

And ever she song by lullaby. 

Thus rockyd she hyr chyld. 

By by lullaby, 

Rockid I my child, by by. 



78 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Then merveld I ryght sore of thys, 

A mayde to have a chyld I wys. 

By by luUaby,!^ 

Thus rockyd she her chyld : 

By by lullaby, rocked I my chyld. 



^•^ The Roman nurses used the word lulla to quiet their children, 
and they feigned a deity called Lullus, whom they invoked on that 
occasion. The luUaby, or tune itself, was called by the same name. 
See more in Douce's Illustrations of ShaJcespeare, edit. 1839, p. 384-5. 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. 79 

XXVI. 



From Melismata^ Musicall PTiansies fitting the Court, Citie, 
and Countrey Humours. Printed hy William Stanshy, 4to, 
1614 ; but mucli older than the date of the book, as a parody, 
of which the foUowingis the first stanza, appeared in 1590 in 
Ane Compendious Booke of Godly and Spirituall Songs. 

I "Eemember, man, remember, man, 

That I thy sanll from Sathan wan, 

\ And hes done for thee what I can ; 

J Thow art fuU deir to mee. 

Is, was, nor sail bee none, 

\ That may thee save, but I alLone : 

Onely, therefore, believe mee on, 

\ And thow saU never die." 

The original Carol may also be found, with some variations, 
\ in Cantus, Songs, and Fancies, printed by John Forbes at 
) Aberdeen, in 1662 ; and in the Eev. Arthur Bedford's 

Execllency of Divine MusicJc, 1733. 
\ It was Carols of this description that the old Elizabethan 
^ writers denominated " Suffering Ballads." 

I Remember, O thou man ! 

j O thou man, O thou man ! 

Remember, O thou man ! 

Thy time is spent : 
Remember, O thou man ! 
How thou art dead and gone, 
And I did what I can, 
Therefore repent. 



80 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Remember Adam's fall ! 

O thou man, O thou man ! 
Remember Adam's fall ! 

Erom heaven to hell : 
Remember Adam's fall ! 
How we were condemned all 
In hell perpetuall 

Therefore to dwell. 

Remember God's goodnesse ! 

O thou man, O thou man ! 
Remember God's goodnesse ! 

And his promise made : 
Remember God's goodnesse ! 
How he sent his sonne, doubtlesse 
Our sinnes for to redresse : 

Be not afiraid. 

The angels all did sing, 
O thou man, O thou man ! 

The angels all did sing 
Upon the shepheards hill : 

The angels all did singe. 

Praises to our heavenly king, 

And peace to man living, 
With a good will. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 81 

The shepheards amazed were, 

thou man, O thou man \ 
The shepheards amazed were 

To heare the angels sing : 
The shepheards amazed were 
How it should come to passe 
That Christ our Messias 

Should be om- king. 

To Bethlem did they goe, 

O thou man, O thou man ! 
To Bethlem did they goe. 

The shepheards three : 
To Bethlem did they goe. 
To see where it were so. 
Whether Christ were borne or no 

To set man free. 

As the angels before did say, 

O thou man, O thou man ! 
As the angels before did say. 

So it came to passe : 
As the angels before did say. 
They found a babe where as it lay. 
In a manger wrapt in hay, 

So poore he was. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 




In Bethlem lie was borne, 




thou man, thou man ! 




In Bethlem he was borne, 




Por mankind sake : 




In Bethlem he was borne, 



For us that were forlorne, 
And therefore tooke no scorne 
Our flesh to take. 

Give thanks to God alway, 

O thou man, O thou man ! 
Give thanks to God alway, 

With heart most joyfully : 
Give thanks to God alway. 
For this our happy day. 
Let all men sing and say 
Holy, holy.ii 



^^ In the version of this Carol given in Mr. Sandys' Christmas CarolSy 
a stanza occurs, before the last, which is not found in the copy from > 
which we print. It is as follows : 

In a manger laid he was, 

thou man, thou man 
In a manger laid he was, 

At this time present : 
In a manger laid he was. 
Between an ox and an ass, 
And all for our trespass, 
) Therefore repent. 

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SONGS AND BALLADS. 83 

XXVII. 

aEljo liiretli so merrs in all tljts ILantr ? 

In 1557-8, John Walley and the widow Toy had license to 
print a BaUad, entitled, 

" Wlio lyve so mery, and make snche sporte, 
As thay that be of the pooreste sorte ? " 

Again, in 1558-9, William Eedle and Eichard Lante had 
license to print 

" Wlio so meiy as thay of the lore estate." ^^ 

These entries evidently refer to the following BaUad, which 
is preserved, with the beautiful chant to which it was snng, 
in the ciuious musical collection, entitled, Deuteromelia, or 
the Second Part of Music/c^s Melodie, or Melodius Musicke of 
Pleasant Roundelaies, ^c, 1609. 

Who livetli so merry in all this land, 

As doth the poore Widdow that selleth the sand ? 

And ever shee singeth as I can guess, 

Will you buy any sand, any sand, mistress ? 



^2 See Mr. Collier's valuable Extracts from the Registers of the 
Stationers' Company, 1848, pp. 7 & 19. 



84 SONGS AND BALLADS. I 



The Broom-man maketli Ms living most sweet, 
With carrying of broomes from street to street ; 
Who would desire a pleasanter thing, 
Then all the day long to doe nothing but sing ? 



The Chimney-sweeper all the long day, 
He singeth and sweepeth the soote away ; 
Yet when he comes home, although he be weary. 
With his sweet wife he maketh full merry. 

The Cobler he sits cobling till noone, 
And cobbleth his shooes till they be done ; 
Yet doth he not feare, and so doth say ; 
For he knows his worke will soone decay. 

The Marchant-man doth saile on the seas, 
And lye on the ship-board with little ease, 
Alwayes in doubt the rocke is neare ; 
How can he be merry and make good cheare ? 

The Husband-man all day goeth to plow. 
And when he comes home he serveth his sow ; 
He moyleth and toyleth all the long yeare ; 
How can he be merry and make good cheare ? 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 85 

The Serving-man waitetli fro' street to street, 
With blowing his nailes and beating his feet ; 
And serveth for forty shillings a yeare, 
That 'tis impossible to make good cheare. 

I Who liveth so merry and maketh such sport, 
As those that be of the poorest sort ? 
The poorest sort, wheresoever they be, 
They gather together by one, two, and three ; 

And every man vdll spend his penny, 
I What makes such a shot among a great many. 




86 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XXYIII. 

Mt it Soutoterg tfjree. 

Also from Deuteromelia, or the Second Fart of MusicJc's \ 

Melodie, &c., 1609. \ 

Perhaps written during fhe war in the Low Countries, < 

where Sir Philip Sidney lost his life, a.d. 1568. ^ 

We be souldiers three ; J 

Far dona moy je vous an pree : \ 

Lately come forth of the Low country, 
With never a penny of mony. 

Here, good fellow, I drinke to thee ; \ 

Pardona moy je vous an joree : 
To all good fellowes, where ever they be. 

With never a penny of mony. 

And he that will not pledge me this, 

I^ardona moy je vous an pree : 
Payes for the shot, what ever it is, 

With never a penny of mony. 

Charge it againe, boy, charge it againe, 

Pardona moy je vous an pree : 
As long as there is any incke in thy pen, 

With never a penny of mony. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 87 

XXIX. 

Ei)e iHarriase of tlje jFroflge antr tlje JKouse. 



Waeton, in Ms History of EnglisJi Poetry, mentions " A \ 

moste strange weddinge of tlie frogge and tlie mouse/' a \ 

ballad licensed by tlie Company of Stationers in 1580. j 

Many nursery rtymes on the same subject are still current. \ 

Pinkerton (Select Ballads, vol. ii, p. 33) says that " The froggie ) 

came to the mill door/' was sung on the Edinbm'gh stage \ 

shortly prior to 1784. "The frog cam to the myl dur/' is \ 

one of the songs mentioned in Wedder bum's Complaynt of J 

Scotland, 1548 ; and Dr. Ley den gives a traditional fr'agment, l 

" The frog sat in the mill -door, spin, spin, spinning ; ] 

When by came the little mouse, rin, rin, rinning," \ 

which possibly may be the same. \ 

The following ditty is fr'om the collection, entitled. Metis- > 

inata, 1611. \ 



It was the frogge in the well, 
Humble-dum, humble -dum ; 

And the merrie mouse in the mill, 
Tweedle, tweedle, twino. 

The frogge would a woing ride, 
Sword and buckler by his side ; 

When he was upon his high horse set, 
His boots they shone as black as jet ; 



88 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

When he came to the merry mill-pin, 
Lady mouse beene you within ? 

Then came out the dusty mouse, 
I am lady of this house ; 

Hast thou any minde of me ? 
I have e'ne great minde of thee. 

Who shall this marriage make ? 
Our lord, which is the rat ; 

What shall we have to our supper ? 
Three beanes in a pound of butter. 

When supper they were at. 

The frog, the mouse, and even the rat ; 

Then came in Gib our cat. 

And catcht the mouse even by the backe. 

Then did they separate. 

And the frog leapt on the floore so flat ; 

Then came in Dicke our drake, 

And drew the frogge even to the lake ; 

The rat ran up the wall, 

A goodly company, the divell goe with all. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 89 

XXX. 

(another version.) 



The copy here given of the preceding Ballad was taken I 

down from recitation, and published by Mr. Charles Kirk- ^ 

patrick Sharpe in his Ballad Book, 1824. The impression, ^ 

consisting of only thirty copies, was dedicated to Sir Walter ? 

Scott. \ 

There is still to be found in the Scottish nursery a strange I 

legendary tale, sometimes caUed "The Padda Sang," and \ 

sometimes "The Tale o' the Well o' the Warld's End," in \ 

which the frog acts as the hero. See Eobert Chambers' \ 

Scottish Songs, vol. i, p. 26, where aversion, taken fr'om the j 

recitation of an old nurse in Annandale, is given. > 



There lived a puddy in a well, 
And a merry mouse in a mill. 

Puddy he'd a wooin ride, 
Sword and pistol by his side. 

Puddy cam to the mouse's wonne, 
" Mistress mouse, are you within ?" 



90 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



" Yes, kind sir, I am witMn ; 
Saftly do I sit and spin." 

" Madame, I am come to woo, 
Marriage I must have of yon." 

" Marriage I will grant you nane, 
Until uncle Rotten lie comes hame." 

" Uncle Eotten's now come hame ; 
Pye ! gar busk the bride alang." 

Lord Rotten sat at the head o' the table. 
Because he was baith stout and able. 

Wha is't that sits next the wa', 

But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and sma' ? 

What is't that sits next the bride. 

But the sola puddy wi' his yellow side ? 



Syne cam the deuk, but and the drake ; 

The deuk took puddy, and garred him squaik. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 91 \ 



Then cam in the carl cat, 
\ Wi' a fiddle on his back. 

\ " Want ye ony music here ?" 

\ 

\ The puddy he swam doun the brook ; 
\ The drake he catched him in his fluke. 

; The cat he pu'd Lord Rotten doun ; 
\ The kittens they did claw his croun. 

> But Lady Mouse, baith jimp and sma'. 
Crept into a hole beneath the wa' ; 
" Squeak !" quoth she, '' I'm weel awa'." 




92 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XXXI. 

(another veeston.) 



The present version of ttis homely ditty was taken down 
from recitation, in YorksMre. There is still another " Frogge 
Song," which may be seen in Halliwell's Nursery Rki/mes, 
ed. 1843, p. 87; and a parody upon the same in Tom 
D'Urfey's Fills to purge Melancholy ^ 1719, vol. i, p. 14. 

The more modern Ballad — 

" A frog he would a wooing go. 
Heigh ho ! says Eowley," 

is too well known to need repetition here. 

The ridiculous burden or chorus of what foUows reminds 
us of another, equally unintelligible, which stOl lingers about 
our nurseries : 

" There was a froggie in a weU, 
Ea, la, linkum, leerie ! 
And a mousie in a mill, 

Linkum-a-leerie, Hnkum-a-leerie, 
linkum- a-leerie, cow dow !" 



See also the numbers of the Notes and (Queries for various \ 
communications on the present subject. \ 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 93 

Sir Prog he would a wooing go, 
Whether his mother would let him or no, 

Farthing linkum laddium, 

Fanny-ho, fanny-ho, 

Farthing glen ! ^^ 

When he came to mouse's hall. 
There he did both strut and bawl. 

He said " Miss Mouse, I'me come to know, 
Whether you'll have me or no ?" 

" Uncle Rat, is he at home ?" 

" No, kind sir, but he'll not be long." 

At length the rat came waddling home -, 
" Who's been here since I've been gone ?" 

" Here has been a gentleman. 
Vows he'll marry me if he can." 



^3 The meaning of this ridiculous burden cannot be guessed at ; but 
we repeat the tale " as it was told to us." 



94 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



The rat could no objection make, 
\ But did Sir Frog the lady take. 

^ "Go and get a sack of wheat, 
And we'll all sit down and eat.'' 



As they were all a merry making, 
The cat and kitten came tumbling in. 

The cat she seized the rat by the crown. 
The kitten she knocked the little mouse down. 

This put Sir Frog in a terrible fright, 
He whipt up his hat, and wish'd them good 
night. 

As he was waddling o'er the brook, 
A lily-white duck she gobbled him up. 

So there's an end of all the three. 
The Rat, the Mouse, and Sir Frogge. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



95 



XXXII. 

Etje Wetitims of tlje jFlge. 

Many confused and obscure rhymes concerning tlie mar- 
riages of cats, mice, frogs, rats, flies, &c., tenaciously retain 
their hold of the memories of the peasantry of England and 
Scotland. The editor has frequently heard fragments of the 
following ditty, which is here given from I)eute?vmelia, 1609, 
sung in various parts of both nations. 

The flye she sat in shamble row, 

And shambled with her heeles, I trow : 

And then came in Sir Cranion, 

With legs so long, and many a one. 



And said, Jove speede Dame Flye, Dame Flye, 
Marry you be welcome, good Sir, quoth she: 

The master humble bee hath sent me to thee, 
To wit and if you will his true love be ? 



96 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

But she said Nay, that may not be, 
For I must have the butterflye ; 

For and a greater lord there may not be ; 
But at the last consent did shee. 

And there was bid to this wedding 

All flyes in the field and wormes creeping ; 

The snaile she came crawling all over the plaine ; 
With all her joly trinkets at her traine. 

Tenne bees there came all clad in gold, 
\ And all the rest did them beholde ; 
But the thonbud refused this sight to see, 
And to the cow-plat away flyes shee. 

But where now shall this wedding be ? 

For and hey nonny no in an old ive tree ; 
And where now shall we bake our bread ? 

For and hey nony no in an old horse head. 

And where now shall wee brew our ale ? 

But even within our walnut shale ; 
And also where shall we our dinner make ? 

But even upon a galde horse backe. 



iiirifrfiiiiiir' 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 97 I 

For there wee shall have good companie,. 

With humbhng and bumbhng and much 
melody : 
When ended was this wedding-day, 

The bee he tooke his flye away ; 

And laid her downe upon the marsh, 

Betweene one marigolde and one long grasse : 

And there they begot good master gnat, 
And made him the heire of all — that's flat. 



I 98 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XXXIII. 

Htfo f^ermit poor. 



This melanclioly Httle effusion was tigUy popular in the 
reigns of Elizabeth and her three successors. The idea may 
be traced to Lodge's rare tract, entitled, Scill(sas Metamor- 
pjiosisj 1589, where it is probably a translation or paraphrase 
from the Itahan. The earliest copies of the ditty, in its 
present state, occur in the The Fhcenix Nest, 1593, and in 
Harl. MS. No. 6910, written soon after 1596. It was set to 
music by Alfonso Fen-abosco and published in his Ayres, 
1609. Of the words only the first quatrain and penultima 
couplet are there given. It was afterwards printed as a song 
in The Academy of Compliments, 1650, under the title of 
" A Lover's Melancholy Eepose ;" and again, with music by 
Nicholas Laniere, in Select Musicall Ayres and Dialogues, 
1653. Prom the latter work our version is taken. This 
song was a favourite with honest old Izaak Walton, (See The 
Compleat Angler, edited by Sir John Hawkins, ed. 1792 
p. 110). In the Tixall Foetry, edited by Clifford from a MS. 
nearly contemporary with Walton, it forms by an arbitrary 
disposition of the words, a little irregular ode, entitled 
"Despair." 

Eoger North in his Life of the Lord-Keeper Guildford 
{Lives of the Norths, vol. ii, p. 12, ed. 1826) speaking of 
Sir Job. Charleton, then Chief Justice of Chester, says, he 



Like hermit poor in pensive place obscure, 
I mean to spend my days of endless doubt ; 
To wait such woes as time cannot recure, 
Where none but love shal ever find me out. 

And at my gates despair shall linger still, 
To let in death when love and fortune will. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 99 

wanted to speak with tlie king, and went to Wliiteliall ; where, \ 
returning from his walk in St. James's Park, his majesty \ 
must pass ; " and there he sat him down like hermit poor" | 
Among the Poems of Phineas Fletcher, printed at Cambridge ^ 
in 1633, we find a metaphrase of the forty-second psalm to ] 
the tune of "Like hermit poor." That rare old gossip Pepys < 
in his Diary January 12th, 1667, teUs us that "He (Sir T. ^ 
KiUigrew) hath ever endeavoured, in the late king's time, and 
in this, to introduce good musique ; bmt he never could do it, 
there never having been any musique here better than ballads 
and songs, ' Hermitt Poor,' and ^ Chevy Chase ' was aU the <. 
musique we had; and yet no ordinary fiddlers get so much 
money as ours do here, which speaks our rudeness stiU." I 
Further we meet with an allusion to this song in "Hudibras," 
Part i. Canto ii, line 1169. 

" That done, they ope the trap-door gate, 
And let Crowdero down thereat ; 
•Crowdero making doleful face, 
Like hermit poor in pensive place. ''^ 



100 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



A gown of gray my body shall attire, 
My staffe of broken hope whereon I'll stay ; 
Of late repentance linkt with long desire, 
The couch is fram'd whereon my limbs I lay. 

And at my gates, &c. 

My food shall be of care and sorrow made, 
My drink nought else but tears fain from my eyes ; 
And for my light in this obscure shade, 
The flame may serve which from my heart arise. 

And at my gates, &c. 





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SONGS AND BALLADS. 101 



XXXIY. 

mg jFloctos m toalfotr E. 

From a MS. Collection of Songs and Music, temp. Eliza- 
betli, in tlie editor's library. A former possessor of the MS. 
(Mr. J. Stafford Smith) thought the following ditty was 
written in praise of Queen Elizabeth. 



With my fiockes as walked I 
the plaines and mount aines over, 

Late a damsell past me by ; 
with, an intente to move her, 

I stept in her waie, she stept awrie, 
but oh ! I shall ever love her. 

Such a face she had for to 
invite any man to love her ; 

But her coy behaviour taught 

that it was but vaine to move hir : 

For divers soe, this dame had wrought, 
that thaie themselves might woo hir. 



102 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Phebus for hir favour spent 

his haire, hir faire browes to cover ; 
Venus' cheeke and Hppes were sent, 

that Cupid and Mars might move hir 
But Juno alone her nothinge lent 

lest Jove himselfe should love hir. 

Though shee be so pure and chast, 
that nobody can disprove hir ; 

Soe demure and straightlie cast, 
that nobody dare's to move hir : 

Yet is shee so fresh and sweetlie faire 
that I shall allwaies love hir. 



Let her knowe though faire shee be, 
that ther is a power above hir ; 

Thousand more enamoured shall be 
though little it will move hir ; 

Shee still doth vow virginitie, 
when all the world doth love hir. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 103 



XXXV. 

W^t JSose of lEnsIantr. 

In Fletcher's comedy of Monsieur 'TJiomas^ 1639 (Act iii, 
Sc. 3), a fiddler is questioned as to the ballads lie is best 
versed in, and replies : 

" Under your mastership's correction, I can sing * The 
Duke of Norfolk,' or 'The Merry Ballad of Diverus and 
Lazarus,' ' The Rose of England,' ' In Crete when Dedimus 
first began,' ' Jonas his ciying-out against Coventry.' " 

The third ballad above mentioned is undoubtedly that 
which follows, which is here given from a contemporary 
musical MS. in the editor's possession. It is not unlikely 
to be the composition of Thomas Deloney, who inserted it in 
his Garland of Good-Will. (See edition of 1612, in the 
Pepysian Library.) Deloney is also the reputed author of 
" Fair Eosamond," printed in Percy's Reliques, ii, 143, 
ed. 1794. 



Amongst the princely paragons 
Bedeckt with dainty diamonds. 
Within mine eye, none doth come nigh, 
The sweet Rose of England : 



104 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

The Lilies pass in bravery, 
In Manders, Spain, and Italy, 
But yet the famous Flower of France 
Doth honour the Hose of England. 

As I abroad was w^alking, 
I heard the small birds talking. 
And every one did frame her song 
In praise of the Rose of England : 

The Lihes pass in bravery, &c. 

Caesar may vaunt of victories, 
And Croesus of his happiness, 
But he were blest that may bear in his breast 
The sweet red Rose of England : 

The Lihes pass in bravery, &c. 

The bravest lute bring hither. 
And let us sing together. 
Whilst I do ring, on every string, 
The praise of the Rose of England : 

The Lilies pass in bravery, &c. 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 105 

The sweetest perfumes and spices, 
The wise men brought to Jesus, 
Did never smell a quarter so weU 
As doth the Rose of England : 

The Lilies pass in bravery, &;c. 

Then fair and princely flower, 
That ever my heart doth power. 
None may be compared to thee 

Which art the fair Rose of England : 

The Lilies pass in bravery, &c. 




106 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

XXXYI. 



The following liigUy popular BaUad of the seventeenth 
century, is taken from The Second Booh of the Pleasant 
Musical Companion^ 2d edit. 1687. It is the production of 
a witty pamphleteer of the reign of James I, Samuel Eowlands, 
and may be found in his poetical Tract, entitled, The Melan- 
cholie Knight, 1615. Copies may also be seen in Merry 
Drollery Compleat,\^l\, and among theEoxburghe Ballads. 
The latter copy, which is dated 1672, has for its title, 
" Courage Crowned with Conquest, or, a Brief Eelation how 
that YaHant Knight and Heroick Champion, Sir Eglamore, 
bravely fought with, and manfully slew, a terrible, hugh, great, 
monstrous Dragon ; to a pleasant new tune." 

Gayton, in his amusing Notes upon Bon Quixote, 1654, 
says, "But had you heard of Bevis of Southampton, the 
Counter-Scuffle, Sir Eglamore, John Dory, the Pindar of 
Wakefield, Eobin Hood, or Clem of the Cleff, these no doubt 
had been recommended to the Yatican without any Index 
expurgatorius, or censure at all." 

In A Collection of Loyal Songs written against the Rump 
Barliainent, 1731 (vol. ii, p. 30), is a parody upon this Song, 
called " Sir Eglamor and the Dragon, or a Relation how 
General George Monk slew a most cruel Dragon, Feb. 11, 
1659." 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 107 

Sir Egiamore, tliat valiant knight, 

Fa la, lanky down dilly, 
He took up liis sword, and he went to fight, 

Fa la, lanky doion dilly ; 
And as he rode o're hill and dale. 
All armed with a coat of mail. 

Fa la la la, lanky doion dilly, ^* 

There leap'd a dragon out of his den, 
That had slain God knows how many men ; 
But when she saw Sir Eglamore, 
Oh that you had but heard her roar ! 

Then the trees began to shake, 
Horse did tremble, man did quake ; 
The birds betook them all to peeping, 
Oh ! 'twould have made one fall a weeping. 

But all in vain it was to fear. 

For now they fall to't, fight dog, fight bear ; 

And to't they go, and soundly fight 

A live-long day, from morn till night. 

^"' This burden occurs in the same way in every verse. In some of 
the broadside copies it is spelt " Fa la lanctre down dilie." 



108 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

This dragon had on a plaguy hide, 
That could the sharpest steel abide ; 
No sword could enter her with cuts, 
^ Which vexed the knight unto the guts. 



But as in choler he did burn. 

He watch' d the dragon a great good turn ; 

For as a yawning she did fall. 

He thrust his sword up, hilt and all. 

Then like a coward she did fly. 
Unto her den, which was hard by ; 
And there she lay all night and roar'd : 
The knight was sorry for his sword. 

But riding away, he cries, I forsake it ; 
He that will fetch it, let him take it.^^ 



^5 The copy in the Roxburghe Collection, dated 1672, has the follow- 
ing additional stanzas : — 

When all this was done, to the ale-house he went, 
And by and by his twopence he spent ; 
For he was so hot with tugging with the dragon, 
That nothing would quench him but a whole flagon. 

Now God preserve our King and Queen, 
And eke in London may be seen, 
As many knights, and as many more, 
And aU so good as Sir Eglamore. 



] SONGS AND BALLADS. 109 



XXXYII. 

STroIe i^t Canniftin. 

Feom Pammelia, Musick's Miscellanie, ^c, 1609. It is 
again printed in Hilton's Catch ihat catch can, 1652 ; in tlie 
index to wliicli Bp'd's name is given as the composer. 

The snatch smig by lago in OtheUo is somewhat in a 
similar vein -. 

" Then let me the cannikin cHuk, chnk, 
And let me the cannikin clink ; 
A soldier's a man, 
A hfe's but a span, 
TMien then let a soldier drink." 

(Act III, sc. 3.) 



Come drinke to me, 
And I will drink to tliee, 
And then shall we 
Full well agree. 

I have loved the jolly tankerd, 
Pidl seaven winters and more ; 

I have loved it so long, 

Till that I went upon the score, 



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110 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

He that loves not the tankerd, 

Is no honest man ; 
And he is no right souldier, 

That loves not the canne. 

Tappe the canikin, 
Tosse the canikin, 
Trole the canikin, 
Turn the canikin. 

Hold, good Sonne, and fill us a fresh can, 
That we may quafFe it round about from man to 
man. 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. Ill 

XXXYIII. 

EJje Cucfeoo's .Song. 

FEOM THE SAME. 



As I mee walked in 
A May morning, 
I heard a bird sing 

Cuckow ! 

Shee nodded up and downe, 
And swore all by her crowne, 
Shee had Mends in the towne, 
Cuckow! 

All you that marryed be, 
Learn this song of mee, 
So we shall all agree, 
Cuckow ! 

All young men in this throng, 
To marry that thinke it long. 
Come learne of mee this song, 
Cuckow ! 



112 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

XXXIX. 

Wiit Hunter's; JSallaie. 



From the Collection, entitled Deuteromelia, or the Second 
Part of Musidc's Melodie, &c, 1609. The old names of the 
hounds will interest om* sporting readers. 

WiLLY prethe goe to bed, 

or thou wilt have a drowsie head ; 

To-morrow we must a hunting, 
and betimes be stirring. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

It is hke to be fayre weather, 

couple up all thy hounds together ; 

Oouple JoUi/ with little Zo%, 
couple Trole with old Trolly. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

Couple Finch with black Trole, 

couple Chaunter with Jmnhole ; 
Let Beauty goe at liberty, 

for she doth know her duty. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 118 

Let Merry goe loose, it makes no matter, 
for Cleanly sometimes she will clatter ; 

And yet I am sure she will not stray, 
but keepe with us still, all the day. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

With O masters, and wot you where, 

this other day I start a hare ? 
On what call hill, upon the knole, 

and there she started before Trole. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

And downe she went the common dale, 

with all the hounds at her taile. 
With yeasse a yasse, yeasse a yasse, 

hey Trolj hey Chaunter, hey Jumhole. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

See hoF Clioojper chopps it in, 

and so doth Gallant now begin ; 
Look how Trol begins to tattle, 

tarry a while, yee shall heare him prattle. 
With a hey troly lo, &c. 

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114 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Tor Beauty begins to wag her tayle, 
of Cleanlies helpe we shall not faile ; 

And Chaunter opens very well, 
but Merry she doth beare the bell. 

With a hey troly lo, &c. 

Goe prick the path, and downe the lane, 

she useth still her old traine j 
She is gone to what call wood. 

Where we are like to doe no good. 

With hey troly lo, &c. 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. 115 



XL. 

JHarttn satU to fjts Mm. 

(from the same.) 

Martin said to his man, 

Fie ! man, fie ! 

Martin said to his man, 

Who's the foole now ? 
Martin said to his man, 
Fill thou the cup, and I the can ; 
Thou hast well drunken, man. 

Who's the foole now ? 

1 see a sheepe shearing corne, 

Fie ! man, fie ? 
I see a sheepe shearing corne, 

Who's the foole now ? 
I see a sheepe shearing corne, 
And a cuckold blow his home ; 
Thou hast well drunken, man, 

Who's the foole now ? 



116 SONGS AND BALLADS. 


< 


I see a man in the moone, 




Fie ! man, fie ! 




I see a man in the moone ; 




Who's the foole 


now ? 


I see a man in the moone. 




Clowting of St. Peter's shoone ; 




Thou hast well drunken, man. 




Who's the foole 


now ? 


I see a hare chase a hound, 




Fie ! man, fie ? 




I see a hare chase a hound. 




Who's the foole 


now? 


I see a hare chase a hound, 




I Twenty mile above the ground i 




1 Thou hast well drunken, man, 




\ Who's the foole 


now ? 


I see a goose ring a hog, 


1 


Pie I man, fie ! 




1 I see a goose ring a hog, 




Who's the foole 


now? 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 117 



I see a goose ring a hog, 

And a snayle that did bite a dog ; 

Thou hast well drunken, man, 

Who's the foole now ? 

I see a mouse catch the cat, 

Pie ! man, fie 1 

I see a mouse catch the cat, 

Who's the foole now ? 

I see a mouse catch the cat. 

And the cheese to eate the rat : 

Thou hast well drunken, man. 

Who's the foole now ? 



118 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XLI. 

Efje JSallatr of tlje £ox. 

FROM THE SAME. 

In tlie University Library, Cambridge, MS. Ee. 1, 12, is 
preserved a curious Ballad of the fifteentli century, somewhat 
resembling the following. It begins, 

•' The fals fox camme unto oure croft, 
And so oure gese ful fast he sought ; 

With, how, fox, how, with hey, fox, hey ; 
Comme no more unto oure howse to here oure 
gese awaye." 

See Wright and HaUiweU's Reliquce Antiquce, vol. i, p. 4, 
where the Ballad, consisting of eighteen stanzas, is printed. 



To-MOREOW the fox will come to towne, 
Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe ; 

To-morrow the fox will come to towne, 
O keepe you all well there. 

I must desire you neighbors aU, 
To hallow the fox out of the hall, 

And cry as loud as you can call, 
Hoope, hoope, hoope, hoope, hoope, 
O keepe you aU well there. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 119 

Heel steale the cocke out from his flocke, 
Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe ; 

Hee'l steale the cocke out from his flocke, 
O keepe you all well there. 

I must desire you neighbors, &;c. 

Hee'l steal the hen out of the pen, 
Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe ; 

Hee'l steal the hen out of the pen, 
O keepe you all well there. 

I must desire you neighbors, &c. 

Hee'l steal the duck out of the brook, 
Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe ; 

Hee'l steal the duck out of the brook, 
O keepe we all weU there. 

I must desire you neighbors, &c. 

Hee'l steal the lamb e'en from his dam, 
Keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe, keepe ; 

Hee'l steal the lamb e'en from his dam, 
O keepe we all well there. 

I must desire you neighbors, &c. 



120 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XLII. 

^iuQ ffietttle JSutler Balla JHog, 

This curious old drinking song is from JDeuteromelia, or the 
Second Part of Musick's Melodie," &c., 1609. It is similar 
to tlie well known Barley-Mow Song, printed in Dixon's 
Ancient Songs and Poems of the Peasantry/ of England. The 
effect of both, must entirely depend upon the mode of per- 
formance. An early copy of the present Song is preserved 
in Baliol College, Oxford. The MS. which contains it is of 
such an extraordinary nature, that the editor intends pub- 
lishing it entire. 

Give us once a drinke for and tlie black bole, 

Sing, gentle butler, balla moy ; 
For and the black bole. 

Sing, gentle butler, holla moy. 

Give us once a drinke for and the pint pot. 

Sing, gentle butler, halla moy ; 
The pint pot. 

For and the black bole, &c. 

Give us once a drinke for and the quart pot, 

Sing, gentle butler, halla moy ; 
The quart pot, the pint pot. 

For and the black bole, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 121 

Give us once a drincke for and the pottle pot, 

Sing, gentle bntler, halla moy ; 
The pottle pot, the quart pot, the pint pot, 

For and the black bole, &c. 



\ Give us once a drincke for and the gallon pot, 
\ Sing, gentle butler, halla moy ; 

I The gallon pot, the pottle pot, the quart pot, the 
pint pot. 
For and the blacke bole, &c. 

Give us once a drincke for and the verkin. 

Sing, gentle butler, halla moy ; 
The verkin, the gallon pot, the pottle pot, the 
quart pot, the pint pot. 

For and the blacke bole, &c. 

Give us kilderkin, &c. ; give us barreU, &c. ; 

give us hogshead, &c. : 
Give us pipe, &c. ; give us butt, &c. ; give us 

the tunne, &c. 




11 



122 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

XLIII. 

a mmtMomtx^ Ballatr. 



The following singular production will be perfectly unin- 
i telligible, except to those versed in the dialect of tlie " west 
j countrie." It is taken from Thomas Eavenscroft's Brief Bis- 
[ course of the true but neglected use of charactering the Degrees 
^/ [in Music] hy their perfection^ imperfection, ^c, 4to, 1614. 



Vurst Bart. 

HODGE TEILLINDLE TO HIS ZWEETHORT MALKYN. 

CoAME Malkyii, hurle thine oyz at Hodge Tril- 

lindle, 
And zet azide thy distave and thy zpindle ; 
A little tyny vit let a ma brast my minde 
To thee, which I have vownd as ghurst^^ as 

ghinde ; 
Yet loave ma, zweet, a little tyny vit, 
And wee a little wedelocke wooU gommit, 

Y' vaith wooU wee, that wee wooll y' vaith lo ! 

^^ Curst, i. e. mischievous, shrewd. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 123 

Zegund Bart vollowes. 

MALKYN's ANZWEU to HODGE TEILLINDLE. 

Yo tell ma zo, — but, Roger, ich ha' vound 
Your words but wynde : thon not for vorty 

bound, 
Wool! I beeleave you vurtber thon ich zee. 
Your words and deeds loyke beeans and bacoan 

gree: 
But if yol loave me long a little vit, 
Thon wedlocke ich a little wooll gommit, 

Y' vaith wool I, thot ich wool y' vaith lo ! \ 

\ 

Bthurd Bart vollowes. \ 

THEIE GONCLUZION. ^ 

Ich con but zweare, ond thot I chill, \ 

Unbonably to loave a tha ztill : j 

That wool I, lo ! — Thon, Roger, zweare 

Yo wool be virmer thon yo weare. 

By thease ten boans^^ — Zo, Roger, zweare an 

oape, 
By thea — ^hold, hold, Hodge ! oie, too wyd yo 

gape: 

17 Bones, i. e. fingers. 



124 SONGS AND BALLADS. 5 



By thea — hold, hold ! thouFt bite, I zweare, my 

wozen. 
Whoy thon beleave ma whon ich zweare ; zo do 

thou. 
Ich do, good Hodge ; thou zweare no more ; 
Ich wooll be thoyne, and God beevore ; — 
Thon geat wee growdes and boagbipes, harbs and 

dabors, 
To leead us on to eand ower loaves great labors. 

THEIR WEDLOCKE. 

A borgen's a borgen, che hard long agoe, 
Be merry, ond a vig vor woe : 
Zing gleare, zing zweet and zure, 

Our zong zhall bee but zhort. 
Muzicke, foice, ond daunzing, 

O 'tis faliant zport. 
Thon let this burden zweetly zung be ztill, 
A borgen's a borgen, bee't good bee't ill : 
A borgen' s a borgen, vor veale or vor woe, 
Zo ever led dis bleasing burden goe. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 125 



XLIV. 

(from the same.) 

Dare you haunt our hallowed greene ? \ 

None but fayries here are seene. 

Downe and sleepe, 

Wake and weepe, 
Pinch him black, and pinch him blew, 
That seekes to steale a lover true. 
When you come to heare us sing, 
Or to tread our fayrie ring. 
Pinch him black, and pinch him blew, 
O thus our nayles shall handle you. ^^ 



18 


Douce adduces this 


Song as 


an illustration of the last scene of 


"The Merry 


Wives 


of Windsor." 


See Illustrations 


of Shdkspeare, 


edit. 


1839, p. 


51. 




It 






\ 








^fiii^ 





11 § 



126 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XLV. 

(from the same.) 



Round a, round a, keepe your ring ; 
To the glorious sunne we sing — 

Hoe, hoe ! 

He that weares the flaming rayes, 
And the imperiall crowne of bayes ; 
Him with shoutes and songs we praise — 

Hoe, hoe ! 

That in his bountie he'd vouchsafe to grace 
The humble Sylvannes and their shaggy race. 



co^r>^ 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 127 



XLYI. 

W^t Slrrijins* liaunce. 

(from the same.) 



By the moone we sport and play, 
With the night begins our day ; 

As we friske the dew doth fall, 
Trip it little urchins ^^ all : 

Lightly as the little bee, 

Two by two, and three by three, 

And about goe wee, goe wee. 



^9 Urchin, in its original signification, is a hedgehog, but came to be 
apphed to a httle elf or gobhn of a mischievous kind, and thence to a 
child of a similar disposition. 



128 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XLVII. 

STosse tlje Pot 

(from the same.) 

Ckorus. — TossE the pot, tosse the pot, let us be 
merry, 
And drinke till our cheeks be as red 
as a cherry ; 

We take no thought, we have no care, 
For still we spend, and never spare. 
Till of all money our pursse is bare, 
We ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus. — ^Tosse the pot, &c. 

We drink, carouse, with hart most free ; 
A harty draught I drinke to thee : 
Then fill the pot againe to me, 
And ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus, — Tosse the pot, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 129 

And when our mony is all spent, 
Then sell our goods, and spend our rent ; 
Or drinke it up with one consent. 
And ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus. — Tosse the pot. 

When all is gone, we have no more, 
Then let us set it on the score ; 
Or chalke it up behinde the dore. 
And ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus. — Tosse the pot, &c. 

And when our credit is all lost. 
Then may we goe and kisse the post, 
And eat browne bread in steed of rost, 
And ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus. — Tosse the pot, &c. 

Let us conclude as we began, 
And tosse the pot from man to man. 
And drinke as much now as we can. 
And ever tosse the pot. 

Chorus. — Tosse the pot, &c. 



130 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



XL VIII. 

JHetfjitiftes one Eootfj is ©rge^ 

(from the same.) 



Trudge away quickly and fill the black bole, 

Devoutly as long as wee bide ; 
Now welcome good fellowes, both strangers and 
all, 

Let madnes and mirth set sadnes aside. 



Of aU reckonings, I love good cheere, 
With honest folkes in company ; 

And when drinke comes my part for to beare, 
For still methinkes one tooth is drye. 

Love is a pastime for a king, 

If one be scene in Phisnomie ; 
But I love well this pot to wring, 

For still methinkes one tooth is drie. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 131 

Masters, this is all my desire, 

I would no drinke should passe us by ; 
Let us now sing and mend the fier, 

Tor still methinkes one tooth is drye. 

Mr. Butler, give us a taste 

Of your best drinke so gently ; 
A jugge or twain, and make no waste. 

For still methinkes one tooth is drie. 

Mr. Butler, of this take part ; 

Ye love good drinke as weU as I ; 
And drinke to mee with aU your hart, 

For still methinkes one tooth is drie. 




132 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

XLIX. 



Feom Weelkes' " Ayeres or Phantasticke Spirits for three 
voices'' Printed by William Bariey, 1608, 4to. 

Strike it up, tabor 

And pipe us a favour ; 

Thou shalt be well paid for thy labour : 

I meane to spend my shoe sole, 

To daunce about the May pole : 

I will be blith and briske ; 

Leap and skip. 

Hop and trip, 

Turne about, 

In the rout, 
Until my weary joyntes can scarse friske. 

Lusty Dicke Hopkin, 

Lay on with thy napkin, 

The stitching cost me but a dodkin : 

The morris were halfe undone 

Wert not for Martin of Compton. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



133 



O well said jiging Alice, 
Pretty GiU, 
Stand you still. 
Dapper Jacke, 
Meanes to smacke. 
How now ! fie, fie, fie, you dance false ! 









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\ 134 SONGS AND EALLADS. < 



L. 

W^t IHanmr of tfje TOorlti noto a tjages, 

(from the same.) 

Ha ha ha ha ! this world doth passe 

Most merily He bee sworne ; 
For many an honest Indian asse 
Goes for a unicorne. 

Eara diddle deyno ; 
This is idle fyno. 
Tygh hygh, tygh hygh, sweet delight ! 

He tickles this age that can 
Call Tullises ape a Marmasyte, 
And Ledses goose a swan. 

Fara diddle deyno ; 
This is idle fyno. 
So so so so ! fine English dayes, 
For false play is no reproach ; 
For he that doth the coachman prayse, 
May safely use the coach. 

Fara diddle deyno ; 
This is idle fyno. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 135 

LI. 

W^t ^pe, tfje iWottfeeg, anU ISalroone. 

(feom the same). 

The ape, the monkey, and baboone did meete, 
And breaking of tlieir fast in Friday Street, 
Two of tliem sware together solemnly 
In their three natm-es was a simpathie ; 
Nay, quoth baboon, I do deny that straine ; 
I have more knavery in me than you twaine. 

Why, quoth the ape, I have a horse at will, 

In Paris Garden for to ride on still, 

And there shew trickes. Tush ! quoth the 

monkey, I 
For better trickes in great men's houses lie. 
Tush ! quoth baboone, when men do know I 

come, 
For sport, from city, country, they will runne. 



4^¥~ ^ 



136 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



LII. 

3£temp*s Sourmg into jFrance. 

(from the same.) 

For an account of William Kemp, wlio was a comic actor 
of Mgh reputation, see the Eev. A Dyce's reprint of Kemp's 
Nine Dales Wonder, printed for the Camden Society, 1840 ; 
and Collier's Memoirs of the Principal Actors in Shakespeare's 
Plays. 



Since Roben Hood, Maid Marian, 
And Little John are gone a ; 

The hobby-horse was quite forgot, 
When Kempe did daunce alone a. 

He did labour after the tabor 
For to dance ; then into France 

He tooke pains 

To skip it. 

In hopes of gaines 

He will trip it, 

On the toe 

Diddle diddle doe. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 137 



LIII. 

ILo&e totll finXi out tJje Mn^. 



" This excellent Song," says Percy (Reliques, vol. iii, p. 294, 
ed. 1813), "is ancient; bnt we could only give it from a 
modem copy." The version now printed is taken from a 
rare musical volume, entitled Cantus, Songs and Fancies, 
printed by Jolm Forbes, at Aberdeen, in 1663 ; again in 
1666 ; and, lastly, in 1683. It is, perhaps, less elegant than 
the learned prelate's version, but it has two additional stanzas. 
We have also added a " Second Part" to the Ballad, which is 
taken fr'om a broadside, " Printed at London, for F. Coules, 
dwelling in the Old Baily." (See the curious Appendix to 
The Sad Shepherd, edited by Waldron, 8vo, 1783.) 

We need only remark, that Percy's version consists of five 
stanzas ; that which stands sixth in our copy being second in 
his. The variations at the bottom of the page are from the 
jReliques. 



Over tlie mountains, 

And under ^ the caves ; ^ 
Over ^ the fountains, 

And under the waves ; ^ 
Under waters ^ that are deepest. 

Which Neptune still obey ; 
Over rocks that are steepest, 

Love will find out his ^ way. 

^ Over 2 Waves. ^ Under. 

^ Graves. ^ Floods. « The. 



13 § 



138 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Some ^ may esteem him 

A cliilde by his force ; ^ 
Or some they ^ may deem him 

A coward, that's worse ; ^^ 
But if she, whom he ^^ doth honour. 

Be consenting to play,^^ 
Set twenty ^^ guards about ^* her, 

Love will find out his ^^ way. 



Many do ^^ loose him, 

By proving unkind ; ^^ 
Or some may ^^ suppose him. 

Poor heart, ^^ to be blind ; 
But if ne're so close ye wall him, 

Do the best that ye may. 
Blind Love, if ye do ^^ call him, 

He will grope out his way.^^ 



7 You. 

10 From his flight. 
13 A thousand. 
16 Some think to. 
19 Thing. 



^ For his might. 
11 Love. 
14 Upon. 

17 By having him 
confined. 



21 WiU find out the way. 



9 Or you. 

12 Be conceal'd from the day. 

15 The. 

1^ And some do. 

20 If so ye. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 139 



Well may ^^ the eagle 

Stoop down to tlie fist ;^^ 
Or nets may ^^ inveagie 

The phenix of the east ; 
With tears ye may move the tyger, 

To give over his ^^ prey ; 
But you'll ne'er stop a lover : 

Love ^"7 will find out his way. 



25 



If the earth doth part them, 
He'n soon course it o'er ; 



If seas do thwart him, 


< 


He'll swim to the shore ; 




If his love become a swallow, 




In the air for to stray. 
Love will find wings to follow, 




And swift flee out his way. 




Where there is no place 


j 


For the glow worm to ly ; 


1 


Where there is no space 


i 


For the seat 28 of a flea ;29 


1 


22 You may train. 23 Xo stoop to your fist. 

24 Or you may. 2o The lioness, ye may move her. 

27 He. 28 Yqj. receipt. 


26 Her. ; 
^ Fly. 1 



140 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Where the gnat ^^ dare not venture, 
Lest herself fast she lay ; 

But if Love come, he'll enter,^^ 
And will ^2 find out his way. 

There is no striveing, 

To cross his intent ; 
There is no contriving, 

His plots to prevent ; 
For if once the message greet him, 

That his true love doth stay ; 
Though demons come and meet him, 

He will go on his way.^^ 



30 Midge. 3^ If Love come, he will enter, ^ Soon. 

^ The fifth and the concluding stanzas occur, with some variations, 
in the second part. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 141 



OR, 

CURIOUS NORTHERNE DITTY, CALLED 'LOVE 
WILL FINDE OUT THE WAY.' 

To a pleasant new Tune. 

THE SECOND PART. 

The Gordian knot 

Whicli true lovers knit, 
Undoe you cannot, 

Nor yet breake it. 
Make use of your inventions 

Their fancies to betray, 
To frustrate your intentions 

Love will finde out the way. 

From court to cottage. 

In bower and in hall. 
From the king unto the beggar, 

Love conquers all ; 
Though nere so stout and lordly. 

Strive, doe what you may, 
Yet be you nere so hardy. 

Love will finde out the way. 



142 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Love hath power over princes, 

And greatest emperour, 
In any provinces, 

Such is Love's power : 
There is no resisting. 

But him to obey. 
In spight of aU contesting, 

Love will finde out the way. 

If that hee were hidden, 

And all men that are, 
Were strictly forbidden 

That place to declare ; 
Winds that have no abidings, 

Pittying their delay. 
Will come and bring him tidings, 

And direct him the way. 

If the earth should part him, 

He would gallop it ore ; 
If the seas should orethwart him. 

He would swim to the shore ; 
Should his love become a swallow. 

Through the ayre to stray. 
Love would lend wings to follow, 

And will finde out the way. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 143 

There is no striving 

To crosse his intent, 
There is no contriving 

His plots to prevent ; 
But if once the message greet him, 

That his true love doth stay ; 
If death should come and meet him, 

Love will finde out the way. 




144 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LIY. 

From a MS. volume of old Songs and Music, in tlie 
editor's library, dated 1630. It was formerly in the pos- 
session of tlie Eev. J. H. Todd. 



JoNE, to the May-pole away let us on, 

Tyme is swift and will be gone ; 

See liow tlie wenches hie to the greene, 

Where they know they shall be seene ; 

Besse, Moll, Kate, Doll, 

These wante no loves to attend them ; 

Hodge, Dick, Tom, Nick, 

Brave dauncers, who can amend them ? 

Jone, shall we have now a hay or a rounde, 
Or some daunce that is new-founde : 
Lately I was at a masque in the courte. 
Where I saw of every sorte 
Many a dance, made in France, 
Many a braule and many a measure ; 
Gay coates, sweet notes, 
Brave wenches, O 'twas a treasure ! 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 145 

But now, methinkes these courtlye toyes 

Us deprive of better joyes : 

Gowne made of gray, and skin softe as silke, 

Breath as sweete as morning milke : 

O, these more please ; 

These hath my Jone to dehght me : 

False wiles, com'te smiles, 

None of these hath Jone to despight me. 




146 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



LV. 

\ STfje Eural ffiance afiout tijt Hag-pole. 

^ This lively and extremely characteristic old BaUad is 
I given from a MS. collection of Songs, with tlie music, written 
J about the middle of the seventeenth century, and formerly in 
<^ the library of Staunton Harold, Leicestershire, the seat of Earl 
/ Ferrers. It differs materially from a copy printed in TFest- 
^ minster DroUety, the Second Fart, 1672. 
\ Mr. Dixon prints a corrapt modern copy in his Ancient 
( Ballads and Songs of tlie Peasantry of England, with this 
\ remark — " The last verse in our copy is modern, and, we 
> believe, was written by a comic song writer, who, a few years 
\ ago, had the impudence to palm the whole song off, on those 
who knew no better, as his own composition." This state- 
ment is not correct, as the said last verse is found in our 
copy, certainly of the middle of the seventeenth centmy, and 
also in another printed in the Tixall Poetry, edited by Arthm' 
Clifford (Edinb. 1813, p. 172) of about the same date. 

Come lasses and lads, 

Take leave of your dads, 
And away to the May-pole hie ; 

For every hee, 

Hath got him a shee, 
And a minstrell standing by. 



m 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 147 

WiU hath got a Gill, 

And John hath got a Joan, 
To jig it, jig it, jig it, jig it, jig it up and 
downe. 



Strike up, saies Watt, 

Agreed, saies Matt, 
And I preethee, fidler, play ; 

Soe, saies Hodge, 

Agreed, saies Madge, 
For 'tis hollyday. 

Then every lad did doff 

His hat unto his lasse, 
And every girl did cursie, cursie, cursie, 
upon the grasse. 



Begin saies Hall, 

Ay, ay, saies Mall, 
Weele have old Fagington s pound ; 

Noe, noe, saies Noll, 

And soe saies Doll, 
Weele have brave Selingers round. 



148 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Then every man began 
To foot it round about, 
And every lass did jet it, jet it, jet it in 
and out. 



You're out, saies Nicke, 

You lie, saies Dicke, 
The fidler plaies it false ; 

'Tis true, saies Hugh, 

And soe saies Sue, 
And soe saies nimble Joyce. 

The fidler then began 

To play the tune againe. 
And every girl did trip it, trip it, trip it to 
the men. 



Let's kis, saies John, 
Content, saies Nan, 

And soe saies every she : 
How many ? saies Batt, 
Why three, saies Matt, 

Eor that's a mayden's fee. 






SONGS AND BALLADS. 149 

But they instead of three 
Did give them half a score. 
The maides in kindnes, kindnes, kindnes, 
gave them as many more. 



After an hour 

They went to a bower, 
And plaid for ale and cakes ; 

With kisses too, 

Until they were due, 
And the lasses held the stakes. 

At length the maids began 

To quarrel with the men, 
And bid them take their kisses backe, and 
give them their own againe. 



Yet there they satt 

Untill 'twas late. 
And tired the fidler quite ; 

Singing and playing. 

Without any paying, 
From morning untill night. 

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150 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



They told the fidler then, 
They'd pay him for his play, 
And each paid toopence, toopence, toopence, 
toopence, and went away. 



Good night, sais Tom, 

And soe saies John, 
Good night, saies Dick to Will ; 

Good night, saies Sis, 

Good night, saies Pris, 
Good night, saies Peg to Nell. 

Some run, some went, some staid, 

Some dallied by the way. 
And bound themselves by kisses twelve to 
meet next hohyday. 



^jL^ 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 151 

LVI. 

Elje i^ortlj^Countrptan's Song, - 

ON HIS VIEW OF LONDON SIGHTS, 

From a ciuious folio MS. of Songs and Music, with the 
autogi-aph of " Jolin Gamble 1656." 

" John Gramble was an apprentice to Ambrose Beyland, a 
noted master of musick, and became afterwards a musician 
belongiQg to the playhouse, one of the comets in the King's 
chapell, one of the violins to K. C. 2., and a composer of 
Lessons for the King's Playhouse." — (Wood, Fasti Oxon.) 

Another copy of the Ballad is contained in MS. Harl. 
3910, fol. 36, b, of the seventeenth century. (See Wright 
and Halliwell's ReliqiicB Antiquce^ vol. ii, p. 70.) It differs 
in many respects from the present version. The adventure of 
the hat in St. Paul's is omitted ; but in its place our coun- 
trjnnan walks down Ludgate HiU, and meeting the Lord 
Mayor in procession, exclaims : — 

" I know not which of 'em to desire. 
The mayor or the horse they were both so like ; 
Their trappings so rich you would admyre, 
Their faces such, non could dislike. 
But I must consider perforce 
The saying of oulde, so true it was, 
The gray mayor is the better horse. 
And aU's not gould that shynes lyke brass." 



I 152 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

I . _ 

I In Meet Street he hears a shout, and the sound of pipe and 

I tabor : — 

I " Por so, Grod save me ! a Morrys Daunce ; 
Oh ther was sport alone for mee, 
To see the hobby-horse how he did praunce. 
Among the gingling compayne." 

In his way to the Tower he passes under London Bridge, and 
wondering " how it was built belowe," he exclaims : — 

" But then my frend John Stow I remember, 
In's booke of London, call'd the Survay, 
Saith that on the fifthe daye of September, 
With wooU sacks they did it underlay." 

Other differences may be found upon a comparison of the 
two copies. The '' north-country " dialect is peculiar to our 
version. 



When Ize came first to London town, 
Ize wor a noviz, as many men are, 
Ize tliouglit tlie king had liv'd at the Crown, 
And the way to heaven had been through the 
Star. 

Ize zet up my horse, and Ize went to Powles, 
" Uds nigs," quoth I, "what a kirk bee th here !" 
Then Ize did swear by all Kerson ^^ souls. 
It wor a mile long, or very near. 

^'^ i. e. Christian. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



The top wor as high as any hill, 
A hill, quoth I, nay as a mountain ! 
But Ize went up with very good will, 
But gladder was I to come down again. 

For as I went up my head ga round, 
Then be it known to all Kerson people, 
A man is no little way fro' the ground 
When he's o' the top of Paul's steeple. 

Ize lay down my hat and Ize went to pray. 

But wor not this a pitiful! case, 

A vor Ize had done it wor stolen away. 

Who'd a thought theeves had been in that place ? 

Now for my hat Ize made great moan, 
A stander by then to me zaid, 
" Thou dost not observe the Scripture aright, 
For thou mun a watcht as well as pray'd." 

From thence to Westminster Ize went. 
Where many a brave lawyer Ize did zee ; 
But zome there had a bad intent, 
I'm zure my pm^se was stoln from mc. 



154 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Now to zee tlie tombs was my desire, 
Ize went with many brave fellows store, 
Ize gave them a penny, that was their hire. 
And he's but a fool that will give any more. 

Then through the roomes the fellow me led. 
Where all the zights wor to be zeen. 
And snuffling, told me through the nose. 
What formerly the names of those had been. 

" Here lyes," quoth he, '' Henry the Third ;" 
" Thou ly's like a knave, he zays never a word." 
'' And here lyes Richard the Second interr'd, 
And here stands good King Edward's sword. 

" And under the chair lyes Jacob's stone, 
The very same stone is now in the chair :" 
" A very good jest, had Jacob but one ? 
How got he so many sons without a pair?" 

Iz' staid not there, but down with the tide 
Iz' made great hast, and Iz' went my way. 
For Iz' was to zee the hons beside. 
And the Paris-Garden all in a day. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 155 

When I'ze came there I was in a rage, 
\ Ize rayld on bim that kept the bears. 
Instead of a stake was suffered a stage, 
And in Hunks his house a crew of players. 

Then through the bridge to the Tower Iz' went, 

With much ado Ize ent'rd in, 

And after a penny that I had spent, 

One with a loud voice did thus begin : 

" This lion's the kings, and that is the queens, 
And this is the prince's that stands here by." 
With that I went near to look in the den. 
" Gods body!" quoth he, " why come ye so nigh ?" 

Ize made great hast unto my inn, 

Iz' zupt, and I went to bed betimes, 

Ize zlept, and Iz' dream' d what I had zeen, 

And wak'd again by Cheapside chimes. 






156 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



LYII. 

® Sons for a^ittolgcus. 

(from the same MS.) 

This Song is evidently much older tlian the date of the 
MS. from which it is taken. The allusion in the last line but 
one, to the Sussex Serpent, fixes the period of its popularity to 
have been after 1614, In that year there was a Discourse 
published of a strange monstrous Serpent in St. Leonard's 
Forest, in Sussex, which was discovered in the month of 
August, in 1614. The relation is set forth with an air of 
great sincerity, and attested by eye-witnesses living on the 
spot. The Tract may be seen in the third volume of the 
Harleian Miscellany. The Sussex Serpent is also mentioned 
in Ben Jonson's World in tlie Moon, and in Fletcher's Wit 
without Money. 

Braithwaite, in his character of "A Ballad Monger," says : 
" Hee has a singular gift of imagination, for hee can descant 
on a man's execution long before his confession. Nor comes 
his invention far short of his imagination ; for want of truer 
relations, for a neede he can find you out a Sussex Dragon, 
some sea or inland monster, drawne out by some Shoe-lane 
man, in a Grorgon-bke feature, to enforce more horror in the 
beholder." — WJiimzies, or, a New Cast of Characters, 1631. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 157 

Will you buy a new merry booke, 
Or a dolefull ditty, then looke ? 

Here's a proper ballet, 

Most fit for the pallet 

Of a chamber-maid, 

That was over laid; 

Which she ru'th, 

'Tis call'd ^ Warning for Youth : 
He took her bout the middle so small. 
He threw her downe, but that was not all, 
I should howl out right to tell of the rest, 
How this poor maid was over prest. 
Therefore quickly come and buy, and read for 

your penny. 
Come, my hearts, 'tis as good a bargain as e're 

you had any ; 
Here's no Sussex Serpent to fright you here 

ill my bundle. 
Nor was it ever printed for the widdow 
Trundle. ^^ 



21 The widdow of John Trundle, " neere the Hospital Gate in Smith- 
field," a celebrated printer of Ballads, before the year 1598. The Elder 
Knowell in Ben Jonson's Every Man in his Humour, says, " Well, if 
I read this with patience, I'll * * * troll ballads for Maister John 
Trundle, yonder, the rest of my mortahty." 



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158 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LVIII. 

Ballati on Sgrnon MMot. 



From Catch that Catch can, or A Choice Collection of 
Catches, Rounds, and Canons, for 3 or 4 Voyces. Collected 
and Tuhlished by John Hilton, Batch in Musick. Printed for 
Jolin Benson, &c. 1652. 

Old Simon Wadloe kept tlie Devil Tavern in Fleet Street, 
at tlie time when Ben Jonson and the wits of the Apollo Clnb 
met there. 



Good Symon, how comes it your nose looks 
so red, 

\ And your cheeks and lips looke so pale ? 

Sure the heat of the toast, 
Your nose did so roast, 

When they were both sous't in ale. 

It shows like the spire 
Of Paul's steeple on fire, 

Each ruby darts forth such flashes ; 
While your face looks as dead 
As if it were lead ; 

And cover' d all over with ashes. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 159 

Now to heighten his colour, 
Yet fill his pot fuller, 

And nick it not so with froth : 
Gramercy ! mine host, 
It shall save thee a toast ; 

Sup, Symon, for here is good broth. ^^ 



22 In Playford's Pleasant Musical Companion, second edition, 1687, 
may be found the following humourous lines, which evidently relate to 
the same person : 

" AN EPITAPH ON AN HONEST CITIZEN, AND TRUE FRIEND TO 
ALL CLARET DRINKERS. 

Here lieth Symon, cold as clay, 
Who, whilst he hved, cry'd * Tip away ;' 
And, when Death puts out his taper, 
He needeth no touch upon paper. 
Now let him rest, since he is dead, 
And ask'd not for a bit of bread 
Before he dy'd ; and that is much, 
For Death gave him a racey touch. 



Now although this same Epitaph was long since given, 
Yet Symon's not dead, more than any man Uving." 




160 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LIX. 

ffl^fje l^umours of JSartfjolomeiw Jair. 

From a rare musical volume, entitled The Second Fart of 
the Fleasant Musical Companion^ 1687. 



Here's that will challenge all the Pair : 

Come buy my nuts and damsons, my Burgamy 

pear. 
Here's the Whore of Babylon, the Devil and the 

Pope : 
The girl is just going on the rope. 
Here's Dives and Lazarus, and the World's 

Creation : ^^ 
Here's the Dutch Woman, the like's not in the 

nation. 



23 Bagford has preserved, in MS. Harl. 5931, a printed bill of the 
latter end of the seventeenth century, wherein it is stated that " at 
Crawley's show, at the Golden Lion, near St. George's Church, during 
the time of Southwark Fair, will be presented the whole Story of the 
old Creation of the World, or Paradice Lost, yet newly reviv'd, v^ith the 
addition of Noah's flood." See Strutt's Sports and Pastimes, ed. Hone, 
p. 166. The editor has now before him a hcense, on vellum, vdth the 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 161 

Here is the booth where the tall Butch Maid is, 
Here are the hears that dance like any ladies. 
Tota, tota, tot, goes the little pennt/ trumpet, 
Here's your Jacob Hall, that can jump it, jump it. 
Sound trumpet : a silver spoon and fork ; 
Come here's your dainty P^y and Fork. 



seal of the Master of the Revels, dated 1662, permitting " George ^ 

Bayley, of London, Musitioner, to make show of a play, called Noah's ^ 

Flood." The Harleian MS. just alluded to, contains another hand-bill, I 

of great interest. It begtas as follows : ^^ By Her Majesties permission. I 

At Heatly's booth, over against the Cross Daggers, next to Mr. Miller's e 

booth, during the time of Bartholomew Fair, will be presented a httle I 

Opera, called The old Creation of the World, newly reviv'd, with the ? 

addition of the glorious battle obtained over the French and Spaniards, \ 

by his Grace the Duke of Marlborough," &c. > 

Braithwaite, in his Strapado for the Devil, 1615 (p. 161), alludes to ^ 

these performances at an earher period : ) 

" Saint Bartlemews, where all the pagents showne, ) 

And all those acts from Adam unto Noe, ^ 

Us'd to be represent." \ 




14 § 




LX. 

Wijt i^eto f^umours; of Bartfjolometo Jair. 

(from the same work.) 



Here are the rarities of the whole Fair, 

Fimper-le-Fimp, and the wise Dancing Mare ; 

Here's vaUiant Bt. George and the Dragon, a farce, 

A girl of fifteen with strange moles on her a — : 

Here's Vienna besieg'd, a rare thing, 

And here's FuncJdnello'^^ shown thrice to the king. 

Ladies mask'd to the cloisters repair, 

But there will be no raffling, a pise on the Fair. 

2'* The author of The History of Punch and Judy was unable to dis- 
cover any earher notice for his chapter '* On the arrival of Punch in 
England," or that hero's popularity in our own country, than the annals 
of Queen Anne's reign afforded. But he deduced from the fact " that 
no writer of that reign who notices him at all, speaks of him as a 
novelty, that he could not have recently emigrated from his native 
country." The earliest notice that the editor has yet found is in a MS. 
Diary of the year 1660. The overseers' books of the parish of St. 
Martin-in-the-Fields also contain some curious entries of Punch, dating 
from March 29, 1666. See the second edition of Mr. Cunningham's 
Hand-Booh of London, p. 107, where they are quoted. Another early 
notice occurs in Jordan's ballad, The ProdigaVs Resolution, 1672. 
" At Play-houses and Tennis-court, 
I'll prove a noble feUow ; 
I'll court my doxies to the sport 
Of, brave Punchinello." 



HP 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 163 

LXI. 

^ Song on Bartljolometo Jair. 

Feom a MS, volume of old Songs, collected and noted by 
tlie celebrated " small-coal " man, Thomas Britton. On tbe 
fly-leaf is his autograph, and the date, 1682. It was pur- 
chased, with several others of the same kind, and of the same 
collection, at the sale of John Sidney Hawkins' books. 

Bonny lads and damsels, 

Your welcome to our booth ; 
We're now come here on purpose 

Your fancies for to sooth : 
No heavy Dutch performers,^^ 

Amongst us you shall find ; 
We'll make your lads good humour' d, 

And lasses very kind : 
Your damsens and filberds, 

You're welcome here to crack ; 
But a glass of merry sack boys, 

Is a cordial for the back. \ 

i 

'^ The Dutch woman's booth is spoken of by Gildon in his Com- < 

parison ietween the Two Stages, 1702: — *' You will see the famous i 

Dutch woman's side-capers, upright-capers, cross-capers, and back- \ 

capers, on the tight rope. She walks too on the slack rope, which no c 

woman but herself can do." ? 



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164 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

You may range about the fair. 

New tricks and sights to see ; 
And when your legs are weary, 

Pray come again to me : 
There's thread-bare Holofernes?^ 

Whom Judith long hath slain ; 
With Guy of Warwich, St. George^"^ 

And Bosamond's fair dame : 
You'll find some pretty puppets too, 

With many a nickey-nack ; 
But a glass of jolly sack, boys. 

Is a cordial for the back. 

The houses being low too, 
Some players hither come ; 

But if my stars deceive men not, 
They soon will know their doom : 

There's other pretty strollers. 
That crowd upon us here, 



26 The "drama" of Judith and Holof ernes vi^^ published with the 
following imprint : ** To be sold, in the Booth of Lee and Harper, and 
only printed for and by G. Lee, in Blue Maid Alley, Southwark." 

^ Poor Elkanah Settle, the City Laureat, after the Revolution, kept 
a booth in Bartholomew Fair, where, in a droll, called St. George for 
England, he acted in a dragon of green leather of his own invention. \ 

J 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 165 

That may have booths to let too, 

Before their time I fear : 
All these may prate and talk much, 

Show tricks and bounce and crack ; 
But here's a glass of sack, boys, 

That's a cordial for the back. 

Come sit down then brisk lads all, 

A bumper to the king ; 
Old England let's remember, , 

May peace and plenty spring : 
Let war no more perplex you, 

Your taxes soon will end ; 
The soldiers all disbanded, 

And each man love his friend : 
Be merry then, carouse boys. 

See drawer what is't they lack ; 
And fetch a bottle neat boy. 

That's a cordial for the back. 




166 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



LXII. 



Wi}t Countrgmatt'g EamWe tfjrousii 
Bartliolometo Jatr* 

Eeom the same MS. See also Duifey's Fills to Furge 
Melanchoh/, vol. i, p. 55, edit. 1707. 



Adzooks ches went the other day to London town; 
\ In Smithfield such gazing, 

\ Zuch thrusting and squeezing, 

\ Was never known : 

A zitty of wood, some volk do call it Bartledom 

Fair, 
But ches zure nought but kings and queens live 
there. 

In gold and zilver, zilk and velvet, each was drest, 
A lord in his zattin, 
Was busy a prating. 
Amongst the rest ; 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 167 \ 



But one in blue jacket came, which some do 

Andrew call,^^ 
Adsheart he talk'd woundy witty to 'em all ! 

At last, adzooks, he made such sport I laugh'd 
aloud, 

The rogue being flustered, 
He flung me a custard 
Amidst the crowd : 
The volk veU a laughing at me, then the vezen zaid, 
Bezure Ralph, give it to Doll the dairy-maid. 

I z wallow' d the affront, but stay'd no longer there ; 
I thrust and I scrambled. 
Till further I rambled 
Into the Fair ; 
Where trumpets and bagpipes, kettledrums, 

fidlers, all at work. 
And the cooks zung, " Here's your delicate Pig 
and Pork." 29 



i 2s a Ugj-e a knave in a foole's coate, with a trumpet sounding, or a 

i drum beating, invites you, and would faine perswade you to see his 

i puppets." — Bartholomew Faire, 1641. 

I 29 Eoasted pigs formed one of the great attractions of Bartholomew 

^ Fair in its palmy days. They were sold piping hot in booths and stalls. 

^ " If Bartholomew Faire should last a whole year, nor pigs nor puppet - 

\ plages would ever be surfeited of." Gayton's Festivious Notes on Don 

\ Quixot, 1654, p. 145. See also Ben Jonson's comedy oi Bartholomew 

\ Fair. Pigs were not out of date when Ned Ward wrote his London Spy. 
\ 



168 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

I look'd around to see tlie wonders of the Vair, 
Where lads and lasses, 
With pudding-bag arses, 
Zo nimble were : 
Heels over-head, as round as a wheel they turned 

about, 
Old Nick zure was in their breeches without 
doubt. 

Most woundily pleas' d, I up and down the Vair 
did range, 

To zee the vine varies, 
Play all their vagaries, 
I vow 'twas strange ; 
I ask'd 'em aloud what country volk they were ? 
A cross brat answer'd " che were cuckold-shire." 

I thrust and shov'd along as well as e'er I could, 
At last did I grovel. 
Into a dark hovel, 

Where drink was sold ; 
They brought me cans which cost a penny, 

adsheart ! 
I'm zure twelve ne're could vill a country quart. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 



169 



Che went to draw her purse, to pay 'em for their 
beer,^ 

The devil a penny 
Was left of my money, 

Che'll vow and zwear : I 

They doft my hat for a groat, then turned me out I 

of doors, \ 

Adswounds^ Ralph, didst ever zee such rogues l 

and whores. i 







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170 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LXIII. 

Eoftacco ts an Jittrtan TOeetr. 

From a broadside, witli tlie Music, " Printed at London, 
1670." It is also found in Merry Drollery Comjpleat, 1670, 
and in Two Broad-sides against Tobacco : the first given by 
King James^ of famous memory, Ms Counterblast to Tobacco ; 
the second transcribed out of that learned physician, JDr. Edward 
Maynewaringe, his Treatise of the Scurvy, 4to, London, 1672. 
An earlier copy is contained in a choice little poetical MS. in 
tlie possession of Mr. J. P. Collier. The latter is subscribed 
*' G. W,," probably Gleorge Withers. There is another ver- 
sion in Durfey's Fills to Furge Melancholy, edit. 1707, vol. i, 
p. 315. 

Mr. Dixon, in his Ancient Foems, Ballads, and Songs of 
the Feasantry of England, prints a Poem, in two Parts, en- 
titled Smoking Spiritualized, which he says was written by \ 
Ealph Erskine, bom 1685. The first part of this "Poem" \ 
is a corrupt version of the following Song. The second part \ 
may be the " composition " of Mr. Erskine ; but this is ^ 
doubtful, as on another page of the same work Mr. Dixon \ 
speaks of the author as Ehenezer Erskine. The identity of s 
the author is thus somewhat questionable. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 171 j 

\ 

I 
( 

The Indian weed withered quite, | 

Grown at noon, cut down at night, | 

Shows thy decay, — all flesh is hay : I 

Thus think, then drink ^° tobacco. ^ 

The pipe that is so lily-white, < 

Shows thee to be a mortal wight. 
And even such, gone with a touch : 
Thus think, then drink tobacco. 

And when the smoke ascends on high, 
Think thou beholds't the vanity 
Of worldly stuflP, gone with a puff: 
Thus think, then drink tobacco. 

And when the pipe grows foul within, 
Think on thy soul defiled with sin ; 
And then the ^e it doth requu-e : 

I Thus think, then drink tobacco. 

I 

\ 30 Drinking tobacco was another term fpr smoaUng it. " The smoke 
{ of tobacco (the which Dodoneus called rightly Henbane of Peru) 
> drunJce and drawen by a pipe, filleth the membranes of the braine, and 
astonisheth and filleth many persons with such joy and pleasure, and 
sweet losse of senses, that they can by no means be without it." — The 
Perfuming of Tobacco, and the great abuse committed in it, 1611. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 173 



LXIV. 

i E\it Praise of ErtnttiaXro. 

j From Weelkes' A^res or Phantasticke Spirites, 1608. At 

\ tlie period when tHs book was printed, the product of the 

^ island of Trinidado was in great request by the race of 

\ smokers. Heylin, oiu* old cosmographer, tells us that the 

i island abounded in the best kind of tobacco, much celebrated 

I formerly by the name of a Fij)e of Trinid{ido. — Microcosmos, 

\ 4to, Oxon., 1622. 



Come, sirrati; Jacke hoe ! | 

Fill some tobacco ; \ 

Bring a wire, 

And some fire, | 

Haste, haste, away, \ 

Quicke, I say, 

Do not stay, 

Shim delay, 

I dranke none good to-day. 
I sweare that this tobacco 
It's perfect Trinidado ; 
By the very mas, 
Never was better gere, 

Then is here. 



\ By the roode ! 

\ For the blood 



'Tis very good. 

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174 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Fill the pipe once more, 

My braines daunce Trenchmore ;^^ 

It is heddy, 

I am geddy, 

My head and braines, 

Back and raines, 

Jointes and vaines, 

Erom all paines, 

It doth well pnrge and make cleane. 
Then those that doe condemn it, 
Or such as not commend it, 
Never were so wise to learne, 
Good tobacco to discerne : 

Let them go 

Pluck a crow. 
And not know as I do 
The swete of Trinidado. 

3^ A popular dance of the period. Taylor, the Water-poet, mentions 
it in a passage which we have not seen quoted : — " Nimble heeled ma- 
riners (like so many dancers) capring in the pompes and vanities of this 
sinful world, sometimes a Moriseo, or Trenchmore of forty miles long, 
to the tune of ' Dusty, my Deare,' * Dirty, come thou to me,' * Dun out 
of the mire,' or, ' I wayle in woe and plunge in paine : ' all these dances 
have no other musicke." — A Navy of Land Ships, 1627. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 175 



LXV. 

Eoliacco^s a Jlustctan. 



From a MS. set of Part-books, in tlie handwriting of 
Thomas Weelkes, a.d. 1609. Its author was, in all proba- 
bility, Barten Holiday, who inserted it in his Texnotamia, or 
the Marriage of the Arts, 1618. See also Beloe's Anecdotes 
of Literature, 1807, vol. ii, p. 10. 
'^^^^■^' 

Tobacco's a Musician, 

And in a pipe delighteth ; 
It descends in a close, 
Througli tlie organs of the nose, 

With a relisli that inviteth. 
This makes me sing so-ho ! so-ho ! boyes : 
Ho 1 boyes, sound I loudly ; 

Earth ne'er hid breed 

Such a jovial weed. 
Whereof to boast so proudly. 

Tobacco is a Lawyer, 

His pipes do love long cases, 
When our braines it enters, 
Our feete do make indentures ; 
While we scale with stamping paces. 

This makes me sing, &c. 



\ 176 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Tobacco's a Physician, 

Good both for sound and sickly ; 

'Tis a hot perfume, 

That expells cold rheume, 
And makes it flow downe quickly. 

This makes me sing, &c. 

Tobacco is a Traveller, 

Come from the Indies hither ; 

It passed sea and land. 

Ere it came to my hand, 
And scaped the wind and weather. 

This makes me sing, &c. 

Tobacco is a Critticke, 

That still old paper turneth, 
Whose labour and care, 
Is as smoke in the aire, 
That ascends from a rag where it burneth. 

This makes me sing, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 177 

Tobacco's an Ignis fatuicSy 
A fat and fyrie vapour, 

That leads men about, 

Till the fire be out, 
Consuming like a taper. 

This makes me sing, &c. 

Tobacco is a Whyffler,^^ 

And cries huff, snuff, with furie ; 
His pipes, his club and hnke, 
He's the wiser that does drinke ; 
Thus armed I fear not a furie. 

This makes me sing, &c. 



^ The derivation of this word is from whiffle, to disperse as by a puff 
of wind, to scatter. Douce says whiffle is another name for a fife or a 
small flute, but he is not supported by any authority. A whiffler, in its 
origuial signification, evidently meant a staff-beairer. " First 4 whifflers 
(as servitures), by two and two, waUdng before, with white staves in 
their hands, and red and blew ribbons hung beltwise upon their 
shoulders; these make way for the company." — A Store Home of 
Armoury and Blazon, iy Randle Holme, book iii, chap. 3, fol. 127. 



178 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LXVI. 

aie antr SCoiacco. 

Fkom Eavenscroft's Brief Discourse, 1614. 

ToBACco fumes away all nastie rheumes, 
But health away it never lightly frets ; 
And nappy ale makes mirth (as April raine doth 
Earth), 
Spring like the pleasant Spring, where ere it 
soaking wets. 

But in that spring of mirth, 

Such madnes hye doth growe, 
As fills a foole by birth, 

With crotchets ale and tobacco. 

One cleares the braine, the other glads the hart. 

Which they retaine by nature and by art. 
The first by nature cleares, by arte makes giddy 

will. 
The last by nature cheares, by arte makes 
heady still. 

So we whose braines els lowe. 

Swells high with crotchet rules ; 
Feede on these two as fat, 
As heddy giddy fooles. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 179 

LXYII. 

STlje SCriuntpfj of 2Do&acco. 

Feom an old volume of Songs, with tlie Music, temp. 
Ctarles II. In TFifs Recreations, 1640, is a Song *' In 
Praise of Sack," and " The Answer of Ale to tlie Challenge 
of Sack." These are succeeded by " The Tryumph of 
Tobacco over Sack and Ale." The latter, with the addition 
of an opening stanza and other variations, is a copy of what 
follows. It is attributed, but upon no good grounds, to 
Francis Beaumont. 

Though many men crack, 
Some of ale, some of sack, 

And think they have reason to do it ; 
Tobacco hath more. 
That will never give o're 

The honour they do unto it. 

Tobacco engages 
Both sexes, all ages, 

The poor as well as the wealthy. 
From the court to the cottage, 
From childhood to dotage. 

Both those that are sick and the healthy. 



180 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

It plainly appears, 
That in a few years 

Tobacco more custom liath gained, 
Than sack, or than ale, 

Of the times, wherein they have reigned. 

And worthily too, 
For what they nndoe. 

Tobacco doth help to regaine. 
On fairer conditions. 
Than many physitians, 

Puts an end to much grief and paine. 

It helpeth digestion, 

Of that there's no question. 

The gout, and the toothache, it easeth : 
Be it early, or late, 
'Tis never out of date 

He may safely take it that pleaseth. 

Tobacco prevents 
Infection by scents, 

That hurt the Tjrain, and are heady ; 
An antidote is. 
Before you're amisse. 

As well as an after remedy. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 181 ^ 



The cold it doth heat, 
Cools them that do sweat, 

And them that are fat maketh lean 
The hungry doth feed, 
And, if there be need. 

Spent spirits restoreth again. 

Tobacco infused, 
May safely be used, 

Por purging, and killing of lice : 
Not so much as the ashes. 
But heals cuts and slashes. 

And that out of hand, in a trice. 

The poets of old, 
Many fables have told. 

Of the Gods and \hmi si/mposia ; 
But tobacco alone. 
Had they known it, had gone 

For their nectar and ambrosia. 

It is not the smack 
Of ale, or of sack, 



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I 182 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



That can with tobacco compare ; 
For taste, and for smell, 
It beareth the bell, 

From them both where ever they are. 

Por all their bravado, 
It is Trinidado, 

That both their noses wiU wipe 
Of the praises they desire, 
Unless they conspire 

To sing to the tune of his pipe. 




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SONGS AND BALLADS. 183 

LXYIII. 

©Itr dBrtslmti turn'tr j^eto. 

Prom the Britton MS., before mentioned (p. 163). It 
may also be found in tbe third edition of Henry Playford's 
Wit and Mirth ; an Antidote againd Melancholy . 8vo. 1683, 



You talk of New England, I truly believe 

Old England is grown new, and doth us deceive ; 

lie ask you a question or two, by your leave, 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

Where are your old souldiers with slashes and 

scars. 
They never us'd drinking in no time of wars, 
Nor shedding of blood in mad drunken jars ? 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

New captains are made that never did fight. 
But with pots in the day, and punks in the night, 
And all their chief care is to keep their swords 
bright ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 



184 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Where are your old swords, your bills, and your 

bowes. 
Your bucklers and targets that never feared 

blowes? 
They are turn'd to stilletto's with other fair 

showes ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

Where are your old courtiers that used to ride 
With forty blew coats, and footmen beside ? 
They are turned to six horses, a coach with a guide ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

And what has become of our Old English cloathes, I 

Your long sleev'd doublet, and your trunk hose ? ^ 

They are turn'd to Erench fashions and other ] 

gugaws ; 

And is not Old England grown new ? 

Your gallant and his taylor, some half-a-year 

together, 
To fit a new suit to a new hat and feather ; 
Of gold, or of silver, silk, cloth, stuff, or leather ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 185 

We have new fashioned beards, and new fashioned 

locks, 
And new fashioned hats, for your new pated 

blocks, 
And more new diseases, besides the French pox ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

New houses are built, the old ones pull'd down. 
Until the new houses sell all the old ground, 
And the houses stand like a horse in the pound ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

New fashions in houses, new fashions at table. 
Old servants discharged, and new not so able, . 
And all good eld customs is but a fable ; 
And is not Old England gro^vn new ? 

New trickings, new goings, new measures, new 

faces, 
New heads for men, for your women new faces, 
And twenty new tricks to mend their bad cases ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 



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186 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

New tricks in the law, new tricks in the rolls, 
New bodies they have, they look for new souls, 
When the money is paid for building old Paul's ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 

Then talk you no more of New England, 
New England is where Old England did stand, 
New furnish' d, new fashioned, new woman' d, 
new man'd ; 
And is not Old England grown new ? 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 187 



LXIX. 

Wtjt MmmMion of a Batr JHarM> 

(from the same.) 

The year 1633 must be ever memorable in tbe history of 
London Bridge : for scarcely in tlie awful conflagration wMcli 
consumed almost tlie whole City, did that brave old edifice 
suffer so severely. Eichard Bloome, one of Stowe's con- 
tinuators, on p. 61 of his Survey/, thus speaks of the calamity : 

" On the 13th day of February, between eleven and twelve 
at night, there happened, in the house of one Briggs, a 
needle-maker, near St. Magnus Church, at the north end of 
the bridge, by the carelessness of a maid-servant, setting a tub 
of hot sea-coal ashes under a pair of stairs, a sad and lament- 
able fire, which consimied all the buildings before eight of the 
clock the next morning, from the north end of the bridge to 
the first vacancy on both sides, containing forty-two houses ; 
water then being very scarce, the Thames being almost 
fi*ozen over. Beneath, in the vaults and cellars, the fire 
remained glowing and burning a whole week after." 

The fatal event here narrated probably gave rise to the 
following jesting Ballad. 

It is printed at the end of a very rare publication, entitled, ^ 
The loves of Hero and Zeander, a Mock Toem ; together with 



188 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

choice Poems and rare Pieces of Drollery, got by hearty and 
often repeated by divers witty Gentlemen and Ladies that use 
to walhe in the New Exchange, and at their recreations in 
Hide Park. Lond., 1653, 12mo. There is also another 
edition of 1682 ; but many of the fescennine rhymes, some 
of which would have done honour to Hudibras, and many of 
the witty points of this ballad, are, in that latter copy, most 
vilely perverted. It may also be found at the end of Ovid de 
Arte Amandi, ^c, Englished, together with Choice Poems, and 
rare Pieces of Drollery, 1662 ; and in Durfey's Wit and 
Mirth, 1719, vol. iv, p. 1. 

A copy of the BaUad, in its original state, is in the 
Pepysian Collection (vol. ii, p. 146), where it is called The 
Lamentation of a Bad Market, or the drownding of three 
children on the Thames. To the tune of the Ladies Pall. 
Printed for F. Coles, T. Vere, J. Wright, and J. Clarke. 

The weU-known nursery rhymes — 

" Three children sliding on the ice, 
Upon a summer's day. 
As it fell out, they aU fell in. 
The rest they ran away," &c., 
was most probably found upon the ballad. 

Borne Christian people all give ear 

Unto tlie grief of us : 
Caused by the death of three children dear ; 

The which it happened thus. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 189 

And eke there befel an accident, 

\ By fault of a carpenter's son, 

I Who to saw chips his sharp axe-e-lent 

I Woe worth the time may Lon- 

> 

I May London say : woe worth the carpenter ! 

I And all such Uock-liead fools ; 

\ Would he were hanged up like a sarjpent here 

\ For meddhng with edge tools. 

\ For into the chips there fell a spark, 

\ Which put out in such flames, 

\ That it was known into South-wark 

I Which hes beyond the Thames 

\ For he I the bridge was wondrous hi^h, 

\ With water underneath ; 

I O'er which as many fishes fly 

\ As birds therein do breathe. 



And yet the fire consumed the brigg. 
Not far from place of landing ; 

And though the building was fall big, 
It fell down — not-withstanding. 



190 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

And eke into the water fell 

So many pewter dishes, 
That a man might have taken up very well 

Both boiled and roasted fishes ! 

And thus the bridge of London town, 
Por building that was sumptuous, 

Was all by ^^ half burnt down 
For being too contumptious I 

Thus you have all but half my song, 
Pray list to what comes ater ; 

Eor now I have cooVd you with the/r^, 
I'll warm you with the water ! 

ril tell you what the river's name's 
Where the children did slide-a. 

It was fair London's swiftest Thames, 
Which keeps both time and tide-a. 

AU on the tenth of January, 
To the wonder of much people ; 

'Twas frozen o'er that well 'twould bear 
Almost a country steeple 1 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 191 

Three children sliding thereabout, 

Upon a place too thin ; i 

That so at last it did fall out, | 

That they did aR/all in. \ 

A great lord there was that laid with the king, 
And with the king great wager makes ; 

But when he saw that he could not win 
He sigh'd, and would have drawn stakes. 

He said it would bear a man for to slide, 

And laid a hundred pound ; 
The king said it would break, and so it did, 

Por three children there were drown'd. 

Of which one's head was from his should- 
ers stricken, — whose name was John ; 

Who then cried out as loud as he could 
Oh Lon-a ! Lon-a ! London ! 

Oh ! tut-tut-turn from thy sinful race ! 

Thus did his speech decay ; 
I wonder that in such a case 

He had no more to say. 



I 192 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



And thus being drown'd, alack ! alack ! 

The water ran down their throats, 
And stopp'd their breath three hours by the 
clock, 

Before they could get any boats ! 

Ye parents all that children have. 

And ye that have none yet, 
Preserve your children from the grave, 

And teach them at home to sit. 

For had these at a sermon been. 

Or else upon dry ground. 
Why then I never would have been seen. 

If that they had been drown'd. 

Even as a huntsman ties his dogs 
Por fear they should go fro' him ; 

So tye your children with severity's clogs, 
Untie 'em and you'll undo 'em. 

God bless our noble Parliament, 

And rid them from all fears ; 
God bless all the Commons of this land 

And God bless — some of the Peers ! 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 193 



LXX. 

3Lont»on's ©rDinarg; or, €&erg Jttan in Ijts 
JIumour. 

This humourous old Song is from a small oblong Common- 
place Book of Music and Poetry, written at tlie close of the 
seventeenth century. It is evidently of much earlier date 
than the hand- writing of the MS., and a black-letter copy 
" Printed by the assignes of Thomas Symcocke " is preserved 
in the Eoxburghe Collection (vol. i, p. 313). It has been 
very incorrectly printed, with the entire omission of one 
stanza (the twelfth) in Evans's Collection of Old Ballads. 
A portion of the same is also inserted, under the title of 
" The Tavern Song," in the third edition of Wit and MirtJi, 
an Antidote against MelancJioly, 1683. 

In a black-letter Poem of Queen Elizabeth's reign, entitled 
Newesfrom Bartholemew Fayre, there is a curious enumeration 
of Taverns in London, namely : — 

" There hath been great sale and utterance of wine. 
Besides beere, and ale, and Ipocras fine. 
In every country, region and nation, 
But chiefly in BiUingsgate, at the Salutation ; 
And the Bore's Head, near London Stone ; 
The Swan at Dowgate, a taverne well knowne ; 



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194 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



The Miter in Cheape, and tlien tlie Bull Head , 
And many like places tliat make noses red : 



^ Tlie Bore's Head in Old Pish Street ; Three Crowns in the $ 
\ Vintry ; 

\ And now, of late, St. Martin's in the Sentree : \ 

r The Windmill in Lothbury ; the Ship at the Exchange ; \ 

s King's Head in New Fish Street, where roysters do range : \ 

^ The Mermaid in Comhill ; Red Lion in the Strand ; ^ 

\ Three Tuns in Newgate Market ; Old Fish Street at the \ 
Swan.'' 

Several of the above Signs have been continued to the 
present day, in the very places mentioned ; but nearly all the 
original buildings were destroyed in the fire of 1666, and the 
few which escaped have been rebuilt, or so altered, that their 
former appearance has altogether vanished. 

Through the Royal Exchange as I walked, 
Where gallants in satin did shine : 

At midst of the day they parted away 
At several places to dine. 

\ 



The gentry went to the King's-head, 

The nobles unto the Crown ; c^ 

The knights unto the Golden Fleece, \ 

And the ploughman to the Clown. ( 

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SONGS AND BALLADS. 195 

The clergy will dine at tlie Mitre, 
The vintners at the Three Tuns ; 

The usurers to the Devil will go, 
And the friars unto the Nuns. 



The ladies will dine at the Feathers, i 

The Globe no captain will scorn ; ^ 

The huntsmen Avill go to the Greyhound below, ] 

And some townsmen to the Horn. \ 

I 

The plumbers will dine at the Fountain, | 

The cooks at the Holy Lamb ; I 

The drunkards at noon, to theMan in theMoon, 

And the cuckolds to the Ram. | 

The roarers will dine at the Lion, j 

The watermen at the Old Swan ; | 

The bawds will to the Negro go, 

And the whores to the Naked Man. > 

The keepers will to the White Hart, | 

The mariners unto the Ship ; \ 

The beggars they must take their way 
To the Eggshell and the Whip. 



196 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

The farriers will to the Horse, 
The blacksmith unto the Lock ; 

The butchers to the BuU will go, 
And the carmen to Bridewell Dock. 

The fishmongers unto the Dolphin, 
The bakers to the Cheat Loaf ; 

The turners unto the Ladle will go, 
Where they may merrily quaff. 

The taylors will dine at the Shears, 
The shoemakers wiU to the Boot ; 

The Welshmen they will take their way 
And dine at the sign of the Goat. 

The hosiers will dine at the Leg, 

The drapers at the sign of the Brush ; 

The fietchers to Robin Hood wiU go. 
And the spendthrift to Beggars-Bush. 

The pewterers to the Quart Pot, 
The coopers will dine at the Hoop ; 

The cobblers to the Last will go. 
And the bargemen to the Scoop. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 197 

The carpenters will dine at the Axe, 
The colliers will dine at the Sack ; 

Your fruiterer he to the Cherry Tree — 
Good fellows no liquor will lack. 

The goldsmiths to the Three Cups, 
Their money they count as dross ; 

Your Puritan to the Pewter Can, 
And your Papists to the Cross. 

The weavers will dine at the Shuttle, 
The glovers will unto the Glove ; 

The maidens all to the Maidenhead, 
And true lovers unto the Dove. 

The saddlers will dine at the Saddle, 
The painters to the Green Dragon ; 

The Dutchman will go to the sign of the Vrow, 
Where each man may drink his flaggon. 

The chandlers wiU dine at the Scales, 
The salters at the sign of the Bag ; 

The porters take pain at the Labour-in-vain, 
And the horse-courser to the White Niag. 



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198 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Thus every man in his humour, 

Prom north unto the south ; 
But he that hath no money in his purse 

May dine at the sign of the Mouth. 

The swaggerers will dine at the Fencers ; 

But those that have lost their wits 
With Bedlam Tom let there be their home, 

And the Drum the drummer best fits. 

The cheater will dine at the Chequer, 
The pickpockets at a blind alehouse, 

Till taken and tried, up Holborn they ride, 
And make their end at the gallows. 



*^* In Thomas Heywood's Rajpe of Imcrece^ 1608, is the 
following " Song," which may be the original of the BaUad. 
It is sung by the Lord Yalerius, who has no fewer than semn- 
teen songs in the course of the " Tragedy," as it is termed. 

" The gentry to the King's Head, 
The nobles to the Crown, 
The knights unto the Golden Fleece, 
And to the Plough the clown. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 199 

The churclimaii to the Mitre, 

The shepherd to the Star, 
The gardener hies him to the Rose, 

To the Drum, the man-of-war. 

To the Feathers, ladies, you ; the Globe 

The seaman doth not scorn ; 
The usurer to the Devil, and 

The townsmen to the Horn. 

The huntsman to the White Hart, 
To the Ship the merchants go ; 

But you that do the muses love. 
The sign called River Po. 

The banquerout to the World's End, 

The fool to the Fortune hie ; 
Unto the Mouth the oyster wife. 

The fiddler to the Pie. 

The punk unto the Cockatrice, 

The drunkard to the Vine, 
The beggar to the Bush, then meet. 

And with Duke Humphrey dine." 



200 SONGS AND BALLADS. 
LXXI. 

a STom^o^JSetilam Song. 

(from the same). 

Mr. D'Israeli in liis excellent Paper on " Tom-o'- 
bedlams " ^^ makes the following remarks : — " An itinerant 
lunatic, chanting wild ditties, fancifully attired, gay with 
the simplicity of childhood, yet often moaning with the 
sorrows of a troubled man, a mixture of character at once 
grotesque and plaintive, became an interesting object to 
poetical minds. It is probable that the character of Edgar, 
in the Lear of Shakespeare, first introduced the hazardous 
conception into the poetical world. Poems composed in the 
character of a Tom-o'-Bedlam appear to have formed a 
fashionable class of poetry among the wits; they seem to 
have held together their poetical contests, and some of these 
writers became celebrated for their successful efforts ; for old 
Izaak Walton mentions ' Mr. William Basse as one who has 
made the Songs of the ' Hunter in his career,' and of ' Tom- 
o'-Bedlam,' and many others of note.' Bishop Percy in his 
Reliques of Ancient English Poetry, has preserved six of 
what he calls ' Mad Songs,' expressings his surprise that the 
English should have ' more songs and baUads on the subject 
of madness than any of their neighbours,' for such are not 
found in the collection of songs of the French, Italian, &c., 
and nearly insinuates, for their cause, that we are perhaps 

33 Curiosities of Literature, Tp.2S5, edit. IS38. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 201 

more liable to tlie calamity of madness than other nations. 
This superfluous criticism had been spared had that elegant 
collector been aware of the circumstance which had produced 
this class of poems, and recollected the more ancient original 
in the Edgar of Shakespeare." 

Aubrey in his Natural History of Wiltshire (MS.) says, 
"Till the breaking out of the Civil Wars, Tom-o' -Bedlams 
did travel about the country. They had been once distracted 
men that had been put into Bedlam, where recovering to 
some soberness they were licentiated to go a begging. They 
had on their left arms an armiUa of tin, about four inches 
long ; they could not get it off. They wore about their necks 
a great horn of an ox in a string or bawdrick, which when 
they came to a house for alms they did wind ; and they did 
put the drink given them into this horn, whereto they did put 
a stopple. Since the wars I do not remember to have seen 
any of them." Edgar, in Shakespeare's "King Lear," it 
wiU be remembered, carries a horn. 

The following Song is printed in a scarce Miscellany, en- 
titled Wit and Drollery ^ 1659 ; and at the end of Le Prince 
d' Amour, 1660. 



Prom the hag and hungry goblin 
That into rags would rend ye, 

All the spirits that stand 

By the naked man, 
In the book of moons defend ye ! 



202 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

That of your five sound senses 
You never be forsaken ; 

Nor never travel from 

Yourselves with Tom 
Abroad to beg your bacon. 

Chorus. 

Nor never sing, any food and feeding, 
Money, drink or clothing ; 

Come dame or maid, 

Be not afraid, 
Poor Tom will injure nothing. 

Of thirty bare years have I 
Twice twenty been enraged ; 

And of forty, been 

Three times fifteen 
In durance soundly caged. 
In the lovely lofts of Bedlam, 
In stubble soft and dainty. 

Brave bracelets strong. 

Sweet whips, ding dong. 
And a wholesome hunger plenty. 

Yet did I sing, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 203 

With a thought I took for Maudhn, 
And a cruise of cockle pottage, 

And a thing thus — tall, 

Sky bless you all, 
I fell into this dotage. 
I slept not since the Conquest ; 
Till then I never waked ; 

Till the roguish boy 

Of love, where I lay. 
Me found, and stript me naked. 

Yet do I sing, &c. 

When short I have shorn my sow's face, 
And swigg'd my horned barrel. 

In an oaken inn 

Do I pawn my skin 
As a suit of gilt apparel. 
The morn's my constant mistress, 
And the lonely owl my marrow ; 

The flaming drake. 

And the night-crow, make 
Me music, to my sorrow. 

Yet do I sing, &c. 



■ 204 SONGS AND BALLADS 

I ~ 



The palsie plague these pounces, 
When I prig your pigs or puUen ; 
Your culvers take. 
Or mateless make 
Your chanticleer and sullen ; 
When I want provant, with Humphrey/ 1 sup, 
And when benighted. 
To repose in Paul's, 
With waking souls, 
I never am afrighted. 

Yet do I sing, &c. 

I know more than Apollo, 
For, oft when he Hes sleeping, 
I behold the stars 
At mortal wars, 
And the rounded welkin weeping ; 
The moon embraces her shepherd. 
And the queen of love her warrior ; 
While the first doth horn 
The stars of the morn, 
And the next the heavenly farrier. 

And yet do I sing, &c. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 205 

With a host of furious fancies, 
Whereof I am commander ; 
With a bmning spear, 
And a horse of air. 
To the wilderness I wander ; 
With a knight of ghosts and shadows, 
I summoned am to Tourney 
Ten leagues beyond, 
The wide world's end ; 
Methinks it is no journey ! 

Yet do I sing, &c. 




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206 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LXXII. 



This excellent old Ballad is given from one of Thomas i 

Britton's old music books, corrected by a black-letter copy, I 

in tlie editor's Hbrary, " Printed for Tho. Vere, at tlie signe \ 

^ of tbe Angel without Newgate." ^ 



A CROTCHET comes into my mind, 

concerning a proverb of old ; 
Plain dealing's a jewel most rare, 

and more precious than silver or gold : 
And therefore with patience give ear, 

and listen to what here is pen'd, 
These verses were written on pm-pose 

the honest man's cause to defend : 
For this I will make it appeare, 

and prove by experience I can, 
'Tis the excellent'st thing in the world 

to be a plain-deahng man. 

Yet some are so impudent grown, 

theyl domineer, vapour, and swagger, 

And say that the plain -dealing man 
was born to dye a beggar : 



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SONGS AND BALLADS. 207 \ 



But men that are honestly given, 

doth such evill actions detest. 
And every one that is wel-minded, 

will say that plain- deahng is best : 
For this I will, &c. 

For my part I was a poore man, 

and sometimes scarce master of a shilling, 
Yet to Hve upright in the world, 

heaven knows I am wondrous wilhng ! 
Although that my clothes be thred-bare, 

and my caUing be simple and poore, 
Yet will I endeavour myself 

to keep off the wolf from the doore : 
For this I will, &c. 

And now to be briefe in discourse. 

In plain terms I'le tell you my mind, 
My quahties you shall all know. 

And to what my humour's inclined : 
I hate all dissembhng base knaves, 

and pick-thanks whoever they be. 
And for painted fac'd drabs, and such like, 

they shall never get penny of me ; 
For this I will, &c. 



208 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Nor can I abide any tongue 

that wil prattle and prate against reason. 
About that which doth not concern them, 

which thing is no better then treason : 
Wherefore I'd wish al that do hear me 

not to meddle with matters of state. 
Lest they be in question call'd for't, 

and repent them when it is too late : 
For this I will, &c. 

O fie upon spightfuU neighbours, 

whose malicious humours are bent. 
And to practise and strive every day 

to wrong the poore innocent : 
By means of such persons as they, 

there hath many a good mother's son 
Bin utterly brought to decay, 

their wives and their children undone : 
But this I wiQ, &c. 

O fie upon forsworn knaves, 

that do no conscience make 
To sweare, and to forswear themselves 

at every third word they doe speak ; 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 209 

So they may get profit and gains 
they care not what lys they doe tell, 

Such cursed dissemblers as they 
are worse than the divels of heU ! 

But this I will, &c. 

fie upon greedy bribe-takers, 

'tis pitty they ever drew breath, 
For they like to base caterpillers, 

devoure up the fruits of the earth : 
They'r apt to take money with both hands 

on one side, and also the other. 
And care not what men they undoe, 

though't be their own father or brother : 
Therefore I will make it appeare, 

and shew very good reasons I can, 
'Tis the excellent' st thing in the world 

to be a plaine- dealing man. 

fie upon cheaters and theeves, 

that liveth by fraud and deceit. 
The gallows do for such blades groan, 

and the hang-man do for their clothes 
wait : 



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• 210 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



Thougli poverty be a disgrace, 
and want is a pittifull griefe, 

'Tis better to goe like a begger, 
than to ride in a cart like a thiefe : 

For this I will, &c. 

And now let all honest men judge, 

if such men as I have here nam'd, 
Por their wicked and impudent dealings 

deserveth not much to be blam'de ? 
And now here before I conclude, 

one item to the world I will give. 
Which may direct some the right way 

and teach them the better to live : 
Eor now I have made it appeare, 

and many men witnesse it can, 
'Tis the excellent'st thing in the world 

to be a plain-dealing man. 

I'th first place, Ide wish you beware 
what company you come in ; 

Por those that are wicked themselves 
may quickly tempt others to sin ; 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 211 

If youtlis be indued with wealth 

and have plentie of silver and gold, 
Ide wish them keepe something in store 

to comfort them when they are old : \ 

I have known some young prodigals \ 

which have wasted their money so fast, 
That they have bin driven in want, 

and were forced to beg at the last : 
Ide wish aU men bear a good conscience, 

in aU their actions be just, 
Eor he's a false varlet indeed, 

that will not be true to his trust. 

And now to conclude my new song, 

and draw to a perfect conclusion, 
1 have told you what is in my mind, 

and what is my resolution : 
For thus I have made it appeare, 

and prove by experience I can, 
'Tis the excellent'st thing in the world 

to be a plain -dealing man. 



212 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

LXXIII. 

OR, 

COME SHEPHEEDS, DECK YOUE HEADS. 3* 
(from the same.) 



This Ballad is tlius mentioned in Izaak Walton's Complete 
Angler : — "Milkwoman. What song was it, I pray? was it 
* Come, Shepherds, deck your Heads ;' or, ' As at Noon 
Dulcinea rested;' or, Phillida flouts me;' or, 'Chevy Chase;' 
or, 'Johnny Armstrong;' or, 'Troy Town?' " 

Another copy is contained in a folio MS. of Songs, written 
in the former part of the seventeenth century, preserved in 
the Ashmolean Museum. (See Mr. Black's excellent Cata- 
logue, No. 38, art. 164.) It is also to be found in Sir 
H. Nicolas' edition of Walton's Angler, published by Picker- 
ing, who gives it from a MS. formerly in the possession of 
Hichard Heber, Esq. 

The air to which it was sung was extremely popular at the 
beginning of the seventeenth centuiy, and the musical notes 
may be seen in Adrian Valerium's Neder-Landtsche Gedenck- 
clank, Haerlem, 1626 ; and in Jan Starter's Friesche Lust-hof, 
Amsterdam, 1634. 

34 In the third, fourth, fifth, and perhaps other editions of Walton's 
Angler, this word is erroneously printed " herds." 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 213 

Come, Shepheards, deck your heads 

No more with bayes, but willowes ; 
Forsake your downie beds, 

And make the downes your pillowes ; 
And mourn with me, since crost 

As never yet was no man, 
"For shepheard neaver lost 

So plaine a deahnge woman. 



All yee forsaken wooers. 

That ever care oppressed, 
And all you lusty doers. 

That ever love distressed, 
That losses can condole. 

And all togeather summon, 
Oh ! mom^ne for the poor soule 

Of my plaine dealinge woman. 



Fair Venus made her chast, 
And Ceres beauty gave her ; 

Pan wept when shee was lost. 
The Satyrs strove to have her ; 



.-.^^ 



214 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Yet seem'd she to theire view 
So GOV, so nice, that no man 

Could judge but he that knew 
My own plaine deahnge woman. 

At all her pretty parts 

I nere enough can wonder ; 
She overcame all hearts, 

Yet shee all hearts came under ; 
Her inward minde was sweete, 

Good tempers ever common ; 
Shepheard shall never meet 

So plaine a dealinge woman. 




SONGS AND BALLADS. 215 

LXXIV. 

Wiit IPrafee of Cfjristmas. 

(from the same.) 

This excellent old Song is corrected from a black-letter 
copy, "Printed at London, by H[enry[ G[osson]," in the 
Pepysian Collection. Another copy (of tbe Pirst Part only) 
is in D'Urfey's Fills to Purge Melancholy. Tlie black-letter 
copy is directed to be sung " to tbe tnne of * When Phoebus 
did Best/ " wMcli tune, under tbe title of " Drive tlie Cold 
Winter away" (the burden of our song), may be found in 
Playford's Dancing Master, 1650. Many of the Cavalier 
Songs against the Eump Parliament were sung to this tune. 

All hail to the days that merit more praise, 

Than all the rest of the year, 
And welcome the nights that double dehghts 

As well for the poor as the peer ! 
Good fortune attend each merry man's friend, 

That doth but the best that he may ; 
Forgetting old wrongs, with carols and songs, 

To drive the cold winter away. 



216 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

Let Misery pack, witli a whip at his back, 

To the deep Tantalian flood ; 
In Lethe profound, let Envy be drown' d. 

That pines at another man's good ; 
Let Sorrow's expense be banded from hence, 

All payments have greater delay. 
We'll spend the long nights in cheerful delights. 

To drive the cold winter away. 



'Tis ill for a mind to anger inclined. 

To think of small injuries now ; 
If wrath be to seek, do not lend her thy cheek, 5 

Nor let her inhabit thy brow. 
Cross out of thy books malevolent looks, \ 

Both beauty and youth's decay, > 

And wholly concert, with mirth and with sport, \ 

To drive the cold winter away. \ 

The court in all state, now opens her gate. 

And gives a free welcome to most ; j 

The city likewise, tho' somewhat precise, ] 

Doth willingly part with her roast : j 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 217 

But yet by report, from city and court, 

The country will e'er gain the day ; | 

More liquor is spent, and with better content, \ 

To drive the cold winter away. \ 

Our good gentry there, for cost do not spare, 

The yeomanry fast not till Lent ; { 

The farmers and such, think nothing too much, I 

If they keep but to pay for their rent. \ 

The poorest of all now do merrily call, | 

When at a lit place they can stay, 
For a song or a tale, or a cup of good ale, I 

To drive the cold winter away. 

Thus none will allow of solitude now, 

But merrily greets the time. 
To make it appear, of all the whole year. 

That this is accounted the prime : 
December is seen apparel' d in green. 

And January fresh as May 
Comes dancing along, with a cup and a song, 

To drive the cold winter away. 



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I 218 SONGS AND BALLADS. 



\ THE SECOND PAET. 

\ . . 

5 This time of the year is spent in good cheer, 

J And neighbours together do meet, 

i To sit by the fire, with friendly desire, 

< Each other in love to greet ; 

I Old grudges forgot, are put in the pot, 

< All sorrows aside they lay ; 

'< The old and the young doth carol this song, 
^. To drive the cold winter away. 

< 

\ Sisley and Nanny, more jocund than any, 

< As blithe as the month of June, 

I Do carol and sing, like birds of the spring. 

No Nightingale sweeter in tune ; 
\ To bring in content, when summer is spent. 
In pleasant delight and play. 
With mirth and good cheer, to end the whole 
year. 
And drive the cold winter away. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 219 

The shepherd, the swain, do highly disdain 

To waste out their time in care, 
And Chm of the Clough ^^ hath plenty enough, 

If he but a penny can spare 
To spend at the night, in joy and delight, 

Now after his labours all day ; 
For better than lands is the help of his hands. 

To drive the cold winter away. 



To mask and to mum kind neighbours will come. 

With wassels of nut-brown ale. 
To drink and carouse, to all in the house. 

As merry as bucks in the dale ; 
Where cake, bread and cheese, is brought for 
your fees. 

To make you the longer stay ; 
At the fire to warm, 'twill do you no harm. 

To drive the cold winter away. 



\ ^ Clim of the Clough means Clem (Clement) of the Cliff, a noted 

I archer, once famous in the north of England. See the old Ballad, 

\ Adam Bell, Clym of the Clough, and William of Cloudesly, printed by 

] Bp. Percy. ) 



220 SONGS AND BALLADS. 

When Christmas's tide comes in like a bride, 

With holly and ivy clad, 
Twelve days in the year, much mirth and good 
cheer, 

In every household is had ; 
The country guise is then to devise. 

Some gambols of Christmas play. 
Whereat the young men do best that they can, 

To drive the cold winter away. 

When white bearded frost hath threatened his 
worst. 

And fallen from branch and briar, 
Then time away calls, from husbandry halls, 

And from the good countryman's fire, 
Together to go, to plow and to sow, 

To get us both food and array. 
And thus with content the time we have spent. 

To drive the cold winter away. 



SONGS AND BALLADS. 221 



lL*eEn&os> 



Go, Little Booke, to suttle world, i 

I 
And shew thy simple face, \ 

And forward passe, and do not turne \ 

Agayne to my disgrace. \ 

Tor thou shalt bring to people's eares ) 

But truth, that needes not blush ; \ 

And though perchance thou get'st rebuke, \ 

Care not for that a rush : 
For evill tongues do itch so sore, ] 

They must be rubbing still j 

Against the teeth, that should hold fast | 

The clapper of the mill. 
Desire those men that likes thee not, 

To lay thee downe againe, 
Till some sweete nappe and harmlesse sleepe 

Hath settled troubled brayne. 



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NOTE TO INTRODUCTION. 

The Minstrels. 

"When Thomas (the first archbishop of York after the 
Conquest) heard any of the secular minstrels sing a tune 
which pleased him, he adopted and formed it for the use 
of the church by some necessary variations."' — William of 
Malmshury. 

" All our- early melodies, Scotch, Irish, and Welsh, no 
doubt derived from the same source — the minstrels, will be 
found on examination to have sprung from the minstrel 
practice of descanting or singing extempore on the plain 
chant or plain song of the church ; and some passages of the 
plain song, as exhibited in the Formula according to the use 
of Salisbury, as established in 1077, by Osmund, bishop of 
Salisbury, are so evidently the basis to dance tunes still re- 
maining, that there can be little doubt that the melody, or 
upper part, was formed upon them." — Preface to J. Stafford 
Smithes Musica Antigua, p. 3. 

The passage from William of Malmsbury above quoted, is 
of some importance, and if rightly interpreted reverses the 
position assumed by the latter writer. At any rate it estab- 
lishes the close connection between the minstrels and the 
monks, and thereby strengthens the arguments brought for- 
ward in our Introduction, 



224 ADDITIONAL NOTES 



Dan dyry, cum dan, dan, ^c. (p. 53.) 

This apparently ridiculous burden may be only a different 
reading of "Down, down, down, deiTy down," whicb a 
learned Welshman supposes to be a Druidical fragment. 
" Dan, dan, dandirly dan," is the burden to one of the Songs 
in the Fairfax MS. {Add. MS. Brit. Mus. No. 5465); and 
Southey gives a traditional burden of a similar kind — 

" Fa la la lerridan, 
Dan dan dan derridan, 
Dan dan dan derridan, 
Derridan dee." 

(See The Doctor, edit. 1848, p. 386). 



I cannot come every day to woo. (p. 60). 

A version of this old ditty occurs in D'Urfey's Fills to 
je Melancholy, edit. 1707, vol. i, p. 135. It is as 
follows — 

" Quoth John to Joan, Wilt thou have me ? 
I prethe now wilt ? and I'se marry with thee ; 
My cow, my sow, my house, and my rents, 5 

And my lands and tenements. \ 

Say my Joan, say my Joany, wilt that not do, < 

I cannot, cannot come every day to woo ! > 



AND ILLUSTRATIONS. 225 

" I have com and hay in the barn hard by. 
And three fat hogs pent up in the sty ; 
I have a mare and she's coal black, 
I ride on her tail to save her back : 

Say my Joan, &c. 

" I have a cheese upon the sheK, 
I cannot eat it aU myself; 
I have three gude marks that lie in rag, 
In the nook of the chimney instead of a bag ; 

Say my Joan, &c. 

*' To marry I would have thy consent, 
But faith I never could compHment ; 
I can say nought but ' Hay gee hoa !' 
Terms that belong to cart and plough : 

Say my Joan," &c. 



Pagington^s Pound, (p. 147,1. 17). 

This curious tune is to be found in Queen Elizabeth's 
Virginal Pooh ; in A New Pook of Tablature, 1596, &c. It 
takes its name from Sir John Packington, commonly called 
"Lusty Packington," a great favourite with the maiden 
queen. This is proved by an early MS. copy in the editor's 
library, where the tune is called " A Pancy of Sir John 
Paginton's." 



226 ADDITIONAL NOTES 

Selinger's Round, (p. 147, 1. 20). 

Also in Queen Elizabeth's Virginal BooJc. The name is a 
corruption of " St. Leger's E,ound," probably from Sir Antony 
St.Leger, whom Henry YIII appointed lord deputy of Ireland 
in 1540. It is probably the oldest popular English tune 
extant. 

Ladies masked to the cloisters repair, (p. 163, 1. 7). 

In 1707 was printed a poem entitled The Cloister in Bar- 
tholomew Fair. It presents a " pretty picture" of " Bartlemy" 
irregularities — 

" To the cloisters I went, where the gallants resort. 
And aU sorts and sizes came in for their sport, 
Whose saucy behaviour and impudent air 
Proclaimed them the subjects of Bartlemy Eair." 

A Walk to Smithjield, 1701. 



Tobacco is an Indian weed. (p. 170). 

The following version of this BaUad is from a MS. in the 

possession of Mr. CoUier, and is the one referred to as having 

the initials " Gr. W." (i. e. Gleorge Withers) at the end. | 

" Why should we so much despise, \ 

So good and wholesome an exercise, | 

As early and late to meditate ; \ 

Thus think, and drink tobacco. \ 



AND ILLUSTUATIONS. 227 

" The earthen pipe so lily wliite. 
Shows that thou art a mortal wight, 
Even suchj and gone with a small touch ; 
Thus think, and drink tobacco. 

" And when the smoke ascends on high, 
Think on the worldly vanity 
Of worldly stuff, 'tis gone with a puff ; 
Thus think, and drink tobacco. 

" And when the pipe is foul within. 
Think how the soul's defiled with sin, 
To purge with fire it doth require ; 
Thus think, and drink tobacco. 

" Lastly, the ashes left behind. 
May daily show to move the mind, 
That to ashes and dust return we must ; 
Thus think, and drink tobacco. 

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Bard {including some nowjirst printed) ; VII. Songs by Miss Blamire and Miss Gilpin ; 
VIII. Songs by John Rayson ; IX. An Extensive Glossary of Westmoreland and Cumber- 
land Words. 



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Specimens of Cornish Provincial Dialects, collected 

and arranged by Uncle Jan Treenoodle, with some Introductory Remarks 
and a Glossary by an Antiquarian Friend, also a Selection of Songs and 
other Pieces connected with Cornwall, post 8vo. with curious portrait of 
Dolly Pentreath, cloth, As 

Exmoor Scolding and Courtship in the Propriety 

and Decency of Exmoor (Devonshire) Language, with Notes and a Glos- 
sary, post 8vo. 12th edition, Is Qd 

" A very rich bit of West of 'EM^diadXsxa.."— Metropolitan. 

The Yorkshire Dialect, exemplified in various Dia- 
logues, Tales, and Songs, applicable to the County, with a Glossary, post 
8vo. Is 
" A shilling book worth its money; most of the pieces of composition are not only 
harmless, but good and pretty. The eclogue on the death of * Awd Dai«y," an outworn 
horse, is an outpouring of some of the best feelings of the rustic mind; and the addresses to 
riches and poverty have much of the freedom and spirit of Burns." 

Gent.'s Magazine, May, 1841. 

A Collection of Fugitive Pieces in the Dialect of 

Zummerzet, edited by J. O. Halliwell, post 8vo. only fiO printed, 2s 

Dick and Sal, or Jack and Joan's Fair, a Doggrel 

Poem, in the Kentish Dialect, 3rd edition, 12mo. ^d 

Jan Cladpole's Trip to 'Merricur in Search for Dollar 

Trees, and how he got rich enough to beg his way home ! written in Sussex 
Doggerel, 12mo. &d 

John Noakes and Mary Styles, a Poem, exhibiting 

some of the most striking lingual localisms peculiar to Essex, with a Glos- 
sary, by Charles Clark, Esq. of Great Totham Hall, Essex, post Svo. 
cloth, 2s 
" The poem possesses considerable humour."— Tail's Mag." A very pleasant trifle." 
Lit. 6az. " A very clever production." — Essex Lit. Journal. Full of rich humour " — 
Ensex Mercui^. "Yery dJoU." — Metropolitan. "Exhibits the dialect of Essex per- 
ffctly.'" — Eclectic Review. " Full of quaint wit and humonr."— Gent.'s Mag, May 1841. 
" A very clever and amusing piece of local description." — Archceologist- 

Grose's (Francis, F.S.A.) Glossary of Provincial 

and Local Words used in England, with which is now first incorporated 

the Supplement by Samuel Pegge, F.S.A., post Svo. elegantly printed, 

cloth, As 6i 

The utility of a Provincial Glossary to all persons desirous of understanding our 

ancient Poets is so universally acknowledged, that to enter into a proof of it would be 

entirely a work of supererogation. Grose and Pegge are constantly referred to in Todd's 

" Johnson's Dictionary." 

g[rd)aeoIosp antr J^umfematirs* 

The Druidical Temples of the County of Wilts, by 

the Rev. E. Duke, M.A., F.S.A., Member of the Archseological Institute, 

&c.. Author of the " Hall of John Halle," and other works, 12mo. plates, 

cloth, bs 

" Mr. Duke has been long honourably known as a zealous cultivator of our local 

antiquities. His collections on this subject, and on the literature of Wiltshire, are nowhere 

surpassed; while his residence on the borders of the Plain, and within reach of our most 

interesting remains, has afforded scope to his meritorious exertions. The work before us is 

the fruit of long study and laborious investigation."— Salisbury Journal, 



6 John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho. 

An Archseological Index to Remains of Antiquity 

of the Celtic, Romano-British and Anglo-Saxon Periods, by John Yonge 
Akerman, F.S.A., in 1 vol. 8vo. illustrated with numerous engravings, 
comprising upward of five hundred objects, cloth, \os 

This work, though intended as an introduction and a guide to the study of our early 
antiquities, will it is hoped also prove of service, as a book of reference to the practised 
Archaeologist. The contents are as follows : 

Part I. Celtic Period.— Tumuli, or Barrows and Cairns.— Cromlechs.— Sepulchral 
Caves. — Rocking Stones.— Stone Circles, etc. etc. — Objects discovered in Celtic Sepulchres. 
— Urns.— Beads. — Weapons. — Implements, etc. 

Part II. Romano-British Period.— Tumuli of tlie Roman-British Period.— 
Burial Places of the Romans.— Pavemenis.—Camps.— Villas.— .Sepulchral Monuments. 
— Sepulchral Inscriptions. — Dedicatory Inscriptions. — Commemorative Inscriptions.— 
Altars.— Urns.— Glass Vessels.— Fibulae.— Armillee.— Coins.— Coin-Moulds, etc. etc. 

Part III. Anglo-Saxon Period.— Tumuli.— Detailed List of Objects discovered 
in Anglo-Saxon Barrows.— Urns.— Swords.— Spears.— Knives. — Umbones of Shields. — 
Buckles. — Fibulae. — Bullae. — Hair Pins — Beads, etc. etc. etc. etc. 

The Itinerary of Antoninus (as far as relates to Britain). The Geographical Tables 
of Ptolemy, the Notitia, and the Itinerary of Richard of Cirencester, together 
with a classified Index of the contents of the Arch^ologia (Vols. i. to xxxi.) are given 
in an Appendix. 

Vestiges of the Antiquities of Derbyshire, and the 

Sepulchral Usages of its Inhabitants, from the most remote ages to the 
Reformation, by Thomas Bateman, Esq. of Yolgrave, 8vo. profusely 
illustrated with woodcuts, cloth, \bs 

Notitia Britannise, or an Inquiry concerning the 

Localities, Habits, Condition, and Progressive Civilization of the Abori- 
gines of Britain ; to which is appended a brief Retrospect of the Results of 
their Intercourse with the Romans, by W. D. Saull, F.S.A., F.G.S., &c. 
8vo. engravings, 3* %d 

A Verbatim Report of the Proceedings at a Special 

General Meeting of the British Archaeological Association, held at the Theatre 
of the Western Library Institution, 5th March, 1845, T. J. Pettigrew in 
the Chair. With an Introduction by Thomas Wright, Bvo. sewed. Is ^d 
A succinct history of the division between the Archaeological Association and Institute. 

British Archaeological Association. — A Report of 

the Proceedings and Excursions of the Members of the British Archseolo- 
gical Association, at the Canterbury Session, Sept. 1844, by A. J. Dun- 
kin, thick Bvo. with many engravings, cloth, £\. \s 
" The volume contains most of the papers entire that were read at the Meeting, and 
revised by the authors. It will become a scarce book as only 120 were printed ; and it 
forms the fii'st yearly volume of the Archaeological Association, or the Archaeological 
Institute." 

Coins of the Romans relating to Britain, Described 

and Illustrated, by J. Y. Akerman, F.S.A., Secretary to the Numismatic 
Society, &c. Second edition, greatly enlarged, 8vo. withplates and wood- 
cuts, 10* 6^ 
The " Prix de Numismatique" has just been awarded by the French Institute to th« 
author for this work. 

" Mr. Akerman's volume contains a notice of every known variety, with copious 
illustrations, and is published at very moderate price; it should be consulted, not merely 
for these particular coins, but also for facts most valuable to all who are interested in tha 
Eoraano-British h\stovj."—Archceological Journal. 

Ancient Coins of Cities and Princes, Geographically 

arranged and described, Hispania, Gallia, Britannia, by J. Y. Aker- 
man, F.S.A., 8vo. with engravings of many hundred coins from actual 
examples, cloth, 18* 



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■Numismatic Illustrations of the Narrative Portions 

of the New Testament, fine paper, numerous woodcuts from the original 
coins in various public and private collections, 1 vol. 8vo. cloth, bs 6i 

Lectures on the Coinage of the Greeks and Romans, 

delivered in the University of Oxford, by Edward Cardwell, D.D., 
Principal of St. Alban's Hall, and Professor of Ancient History, 8vo. cloth, 
reduced from 8s %d to As 
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Essay on the Numismatic History of the Ancient 

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A Hand- Book of English Coins, from the Conquest 

to Victoria, by L. Jewitt, 12mo. 11 plates, cloth, Is 

Serattir|) anir SCoposrapfij). 

The Curiosities of Heraldry, with Illustrations from 

Old English Writers, by Mark Antony Lower, Author of " Essays 
on Enghsh Surnames ;" with Illuminated Title-page, and numerous engrav- 
ings from designs hy the Author, 8vo. cloth, gules, appropriately orna- 
mented, OR, 14* 
"The present volume is trulv a worthy sequel (to the 'Surnames') in th€ same 
curious and antiquarian line, blending with remarkable facts and intelligence, such a fund 
of amu-ing anecdote and illustration, that the reader is almost surprised to find that he has 
learnt so much, whilst he appeared to be pursuing mere entertainment. The text is so 
pleasing that we scarcely dream of its sterling value ; and it seems as if, in unison with the 
woodcuts, which so cleverly explain its points and adorn its various topics, the whole 
fiesign were intended for a relaxation from study, ratiier than an ample exposition of an 
extraordinary and universal custom, which produced the most important effect upon the 
minds and habits of mankind." — Literary Gazette. 

"Mr Lowers work is both curious and instructive, while the manner of its treatment 
is so inviting and popular, that the subject to which it refers, which many have hitherto 
had too good reason to consider meagre and unprofitable, assumes, under the hands of the 
writer, the novelty of fiction with the importance of historical truth." — Atlicnmum. 

Enghsh Surnames. A Series of Essays on Family 

Nomenclature, Histcical, Etymological, and Humorous ; with Chapters 
on Canting Arms, Rebuses, and the Roll of Battel Abbey, a List of Latin- 
ized Surname?, (fee. by Mark Antony Lower. The third edition, 
e?ilarged, 2 vols, post 8vo. with woodcuts, cloth, I2s 
To those who are curious about their patronymic, it will be found a very instructive 

and amusing volume — mingling wit and pleasantry, with antiquarian research and 

historical iiiterest. 

An Index to the Pedigrees and Arms, contained 

in the Heralds' Visitations, in the British Museum, alphabetically arranged 

in Counties, Svo. In the press. 

An indispensable work to tho?e engaged in Genealogical and Topographical pursuits, 

affording a ready clue to the Pedigrees and Arms of nearly 20,000 of the Gentry of 

England, their Residences, &c. (distinguishing the different families of the same name in 

any county), as recorded by the Heralds in their Visitations between the years 1528 to 1686. 

History and Antiquities of the Ancient Port and 

Town of Rye in Sussex, compiled from Original Documents, by William 
HoLLOWAY, Esq., thick Svo. only 200 printed, cloth, £l. Is 



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Pedigrees of the Nobility and Gentry of Hertford- 
shire, by V/iLLiAM Berry, late and for fifteen years Registering Clerk in 
the College of Arms, Author of the *' Encyclopaedia Heraldica," &c. &c. 
folio, (only 125 printed), bds. £d. lOs, reduced to £l. bs 

A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Extinct 

and Dormant Baronetcies of England, Ireland and Scotland, by J. Burke, 

Esq. medium 8vo. Second Edition, 638 closely printed pages, in double 

columns v)ith about 1000 arms engraved onwood,Jine portrait of James 1., 

and illuminated title-page, extra cloth, £\. ?>s reduced to \0s 

This work, which has engaged the atteMtion of the Authors for several years, comprises 

nearly a thousand families, many of them amongst the most ancient and eminent in the 

kingdom, each carried down to its representative or representatives still existing, with 

elaborate and minute details of the alliances, achievements, and fortunes, generation after 

generation, from the earliest to the latest period. The work is printed to correspond 

precisely with the last edition of Mr. Burke's Dictionary of the Existing Peerage and 

BaronetHge : the armorial bearings are engraved in the best style, and are incorporated 

with the text as in that work. 

History and Antiquities of Dartford in Kent, with 

Incidental Notices of Places in its Neighbourhood, by J. Dunkin, Author 
of the " History of the Hundreds of BuUington and Ploughley in Oxford- 
shire ; " History of Bicester ;" " History of Bromley," &c. Svo. 11 plates, 
cloth. Onlg IbO printed, 21s 

Historic Sites and other Remarkable and Interest- 
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fatory Verses by Bernard Barton, Esq., and a Poetical Epilogue by a 
'* Suffolk Villager." Improved edition, fne woodcuts, post Svo. 
pp. 232, closely printed, and containing as much matter as many \2s 
volumes, cloth, only As Qd 

History of Banbury, in Oxfordshire, including 

Copious Historical and Antiquarian Notices of the Neighbourhood, by 
Alfred Beesley, thick Svo. 684 closely printed pages, with 60 woodcuts, 
engraved in the first style of art, by 0. Jewitt, of Oxford, (pub. at^"'l. bs) 
now reduced to \i.s 
" The neighbourliood of Banbury is equally rich in British, Roman, Saxon, Norman, 
and English Antiquities, of all which Mr. Beesley has given regularly cleared accounts. 
Banbury holds an important place in the history of the Parliamentary War of the Seven- 
teenth Century, and was the scene of the great Battle of Edgehill, and of the important 
fight of Cropredy Bridge. Relating to the events of that period, the author has collected a 
great body of local information of the most interesting kind. By no means the least 
valuable part of Mr. Beesley's work, is his account of the numerous interesting early 
etmrches, which characterize the Banbury district."— 77ie ArchcBOlogist. 
Odd Parts to complete copies, \s. M. instead of 2». Qd. 

History and Antiquities of the Isle of Axholme, in 

Lincolnshire, by the Venerable Archdeacon Stonehouse, thick 4to. 
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The Local Historian's Table- Book of Remarkable 

Occurrences, Historical Facts, Traditions, Legendary and Descriptive 
Ballads, &c. &c. connnected with the Counties of Newcastle- on-Tyne, 
Northumberland, and Durham, by M. A. Richardson, royal Svo. 
profusely illustrated with woodcuts, now complete in 8 vols, royal Svo. 
cloth, 9s each, or the Divisions sold separately as follows : — 

Historical Division, 5 vols. Legendary Division, 3 vols. 
The legendary portion will be found very interesting volumes by those who take 
no interest in the historical one. 



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A Critical Dissertation on Professor Willis's " Archi- 
tectural History of Canterbury Cathedral," by C. Sandys, of Canterbury, 
8vo. 2* 6d 
"Written in no quarrelsome or captious spirit: the highest compliment is paid to 
Professor Willis, where it is due. But the author has certainly made out a clear case, in 
some very important instances, of inaccuracies that have led the learned Professor into the 
construction of serious errors throughout. It may be considered as an indispensable com- 
panion to his volume, containing a great deal of extra information of a very curious 
kind."— Art- Union. 

Bibliotheca Cantiana, a Bibliographical Account of 

what has been published on the History, Topography, Antiquities, Cus- 
toms, and Family Genealogy of the County of Kent, with Biographical 
Notes, by John Russell Smith, in a handsome 8vo. volume, pp. 370, 
with two plates of facsimiles of Autographs of 33 eminent Kentish, 
Writers, lis reduced to 5s — large paper, lOs 6d 

The History of the Town of Gravesend in Kent, 

and of the Port of London, by R. P. Cbuden, late Mayor of Gravesend, 
royal 8 vo. 37 fne plates and woodcuts, a very handsome volume, cloth, 
1843, reduced from £l. 8s to 10* 

TJie Visitor's Guide to Knole House, near Seven 

Oaks in Kent, with Catalogue of the Pictures contained in the Mansion, a 
Genealogical History of the Sackville Family, &c. &c. by J. H. Brady, 
F.R.A.S,, 12mo. 27 woodcuts by Bonner, Sly, 8fc. cloth, 4s &d. Large 
Paper, lOs 

Illustrations of Knole House, from Drawings by 

Bonner, Sly, &c. 8vo. IQ plates, with Descriptions, bs 

Greenwich ; its History, Antiquities, and Public 

Buildings, by H. S. Richardson, 12mo.^ne woodcuts by Baxter, Is 6d 

The Folkestone Fiery Serpent, together with the 

Humours of the Dovor Mayor ; being an Ancient Ballad full of Mystery 
and pleasant Conceit, now first collected and printed from the various MS. 
copies in possession of the inhabitants of the South-east coast of Kent, 
with Notes, 1 2mo. 1* 

A Brief Account of the Parish of Stowting, in Kent, 

and of the Antiquities lately discovered there, by the Rev. F. Wrench, 
Rector, 8vo. three folding plates, etched by the Author, sewed, 2s 6d 

History of Portsmouth, Portsea, Landport, South- 
sea, and Gosport, by Henry Slight, Esq. 8vo. Third Edition, bds. 4s 

A Hand-Book to Lewes in Sussex, Historical and 

Descriptive, with Notices of the Recent Discoveries at the Priory, by Mark 
Antony Lower, 12mo. many engravings, cloth, 2s 

Chronicles of Pevensey in Sussex, by M. A. Lower, 

12mo. woodcuts, \s 

The Archseologist and Journal of Antiquarian 

Science. Edited by J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. Nos. I. toX. complete, with 
Index, pp. 490. with 19 engravings, cloth, reduced from 10s 6d to bs 6d 
Containing original articles on Architecture, Historical Literature, Round Towers of 
■"reland, Philology, Bibliography. Topography, Proceedings of the various Antiquarian 
Societies, Retrospective Reviews, and Reviews of recent Antiquarian Works, &c. 



Jo John Russell Smith, 4, Old Compton Street, Soho. 

Historia Collegii Jesu Cantabrigiensis a J. Sher- 

MANNO, olim prses. ejusdem Collegii. Edita J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. cloth, 2a 

History and Antiquities of the Hundred of Comp- 
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batum, and the Battle of Ashdown, by W. Hewitt, Jun. 8vo. 18 plates, 
cloth. Only 2b0 printed, 15s — reduced to 9s 

Newcastle Tracts ; Reprints of Rare and Curious 

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and other features characteristic of the originals. Only 100 copies printed, 
Nos. I. to XLIX. £b. hs 
Purchasers are expected to take the succeeding Tracts as published ; the Series is nearly 
completed. 

A Journey to Beresford Hall, in Derbyshire, the 

Seat of Charles Cotton, Esq. the celebrated Author and Angler, by W. 
ALEXANDER, F.S.A., F.L.S., late Keeper of the Prints in the British 
Museum, crown i.io. printed on tinted paper, with a spirited frontispiece, 
representing Walton and his adopted Son Cotton in the Fishing -house, and 
vignette title-page, cloth, hs 
Dedicated to the Anglers of Great Britain and the various Walton and Cotton Clubs ; 
only 100 printed. 

33iosrapftp, S^iterarg ©fetorp, antr Crittn'sm. 

A New Life of Shakespeare, founded upon recently 

discovered Documents, by James Orchard Halliwell, F.R.S., F.S.A., 

wUh numerous illustrations of objects never before engraved, from draw- 
ings by F. W. Fairholt, F.S.A., in 1 vol. 8vo. cloth, I5s 

An Introduction to Shakespeare's Midsummer 

Night's Dream, by J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. cloth {2b0 printed), Zs 

An Account of the only known Manuscrij)t of 

Shakspeare's Plays, comprising some important variations and corrections 
in the Merry Wives of Windsor, obtained from a Playhouse copy of that 
Play recently discovered, by J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. sewed, Is 

On the Character of FalstafF, as originally exhibited 

by Shakespeare in the two parts of King Henry IV., by J. O. Halliwell, 
12mo. cloth, (only 100 printed,) 2s 

Shakesperiana, a Catalogue of the Early Editions of 

Shakespeare's Plays, and of the Commentaries and other Publications illus- 
ti-ative of his Works, by J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. cloth, Ss 
" Indispensable to everybody Avho wishes to carry on any inquiries connected with 
Shakespeare, or who may have a frincy f.ir Shakespearian Bibliography." — Spectator. 

England's Worthies, under whom all the Civil 

and Bloody Warres, since Anno 1642 to Anno 1647, are related, by John 
Vicars, Author of ** England's Parliamentary Chronicle," &c. &c. royal 
12mo. reprinted in the old style, (similar to Lady Willoughby' s Diary,) 
with copies of the 18 rare portraits after Hollar, Sec. half morocco, bs 
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tagu, Earl of Denbigh, Earl of Stamford, David Lesley, General Fairfax, Sir Thomas Fair- 
fax, O. Cromwell, Skippon, Colonel Massey, Sir W. Brereton, Sir W. Waller, Colonel 
Langhome, General Poyntz,Sir Thos. Middleton, General Brown, and General Mitton. 



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Autobiography of Joseph Lister, of Bradford, in 

Yorkshire, to which is added a contemporary account of the Defence of 
Bradford, and Capture of Leeds by the Parliamentarians in 1642, edited by 
Thomas Wright, 8vo. only 250 copies printed, cloth, is 

Love Letters of Mrs. Piozzi, written when she was 

Eighty, to the handsome Actor, William A.ugustus Conway, aged Twenty- 
seven, 8vo. seived, 2s 
" written at three, four, and five o'clock (in the morning) by aii Octogenary pen, 

a heart (as Mrs. Lee says) twenty-six ytars old, and as H. L. P. feels it to be, all your 

otm" -Letter V. 3rd Feb. IS20. 

Collection of Letters on Scientific Subjects, illustra- 
tive of the Progress of Science in England temp. Elizabeth to Charles II. 
edited by J. O. Halliwell, 8vo. cloth, ds 
Comprising letiers of Digges, Dee, Tycho Brahe, Lower, Harriott, Lydyat, Fir Vv^. 

Petty, Sir C. Cavendish, Biancker, Pell, &c. ; also the autobiography of Sir Samuel 

Morland, from a MS. in Lambeth Palace, Nat. Tarpoley's Corrector Analyticus, &c. 

Cost the Subscribers £1. 

A Rot among the Bishops ; or a Terrible Tempest 

in the Sea of Canterbury, set forth in lively emblems to please the judicious 
Reader, by Thomas Stirry, 1641, 18mo. (a satire on Abp. Laud,) four 
very curious woodcut emblems, cloth, 3s 
A facsimile of the very rare original edition, which sold at Bindley's sale for £13. 

Bibliotheca Madrigaliana. — A Bibliographical Ac- 
count of the Musical and Poetical Works published in England during the 
Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries, under the titles of Madrigals, Ballets, 
Ayres, Canzonets, &c. &c. by Edward F. Rimbault, LL.D., F.S.A., 8vo. 
cloth, bs 
It records a class of books left undescribed by Ames, Herbert, and Dibdin, and 

furnishes a most valuable Catalogue of the Lyrical Poetry of the age to which it refers. 

Who was ''Jack Wilson" the Singer of Shake- 
speare's Stage ? An attempt to prove the identity of this person with John 
Wilson, Dr. of Musick in the University of Oxford, a.d. 1644. by E. F. 
Rimbault, LL.D. 8vo. \s 

popular f i3etrp, Mnxit^, ani Superstitions^. 

The Nurser}^ Rhymes of Er. gland, collected chiefly 

from Oral Tradition, edited by J. O. Halliwell. The Fourth Edition, 
enlarged; with 38 Designs by W. B. Scott, Director of the School of 
Design, Newcastle-on-Tyne, 12mo. in very richly illuminated cloth, gilt 
leaves. As &d 
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stand before their A, B, C, and which the fifty-tbree-year olds like almost as well as the 
threes." — Literary Gazette. 

" We are persuaded that the very rudest of these Jingles, tales, and rhymes, possess 
a strong imagination-nonrishing power; and that in infancy and early childhood a 
sprinkling of ancient nursery lore is worth whole cartloads of the wise saws and modern 
instances which are now as duly and carefully concocted by experienced litterateurs, into 
instructive tales for the spelling public, as are works of entertainment for the reading public. 
The work is worthy of the attention of the popular antiquary."— Tail's Mag. 

Wonderful Discovery of the Witchcrafts of Margaret 

and Philip Flower, daughters of Joan Flower, near Bever (Belvoir), executed 
at Lincoln for confessing themselves actors in the destruction of Lord 
Rosse, son of the Earl of Rutland, 1618, 8vo. \s 

One pf the most extraordinary cases of Witchcraft on record. 



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Saint Patrick's Purgatory ; an Essay on the 

Legends of Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, current during the Middle Ages, 
by Thomas Wright, M.A., F.S.A., &c. post 8vo. cloth, 6s 
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complete history of the legends and superstitions relating to the subject, from the earliest 
times, rescued from old MSS. as well as from old printed books. Moreover, it embraces a 
singular chapter of literary history, omitted by Warton and all former writers with whom 
we are acquainted ; and we think we may add, that it forms the best introduction to Dante 
that has yet been published." — Literary Gazette. 

*' This appears to be a curious and even amusing book on the singular subject of Pur- 
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as tales, and then applied as means of deducing the moral character of the age in which 
they prevailed."— iSjp«c<a<or. 

Trial of the Witches at Bury St. Edmunds, before 

Sir M. Hale, 1664, with an Appendix by Charles Clark, of Totham, 
Essex, 8vo. 1* 
" The most perfect narrative of anything of this nature hitherto extant." — Preface. 

Account of the Trial, Confession, and Condemnation 

of Six Witches at Maidstone, 1652 ; also the Trial and Execution of Three 
others at Faversham, 1645, 8vo. 1* 

These Transactions are unnoticed by all Kentish historians. 

An Essay on the Archseology of our Popular 

Phrases and Nursery Rhymes, by H. B. Ker, 2 vols. 12mo. new cloth, 4* 

(pub. at 12s) 
A work which has met with great abuse among the reviewers, but those who are fond of 
philological pursuits will read it now it is to be had at so very moderate a price, and it really 
contains a good deal of gossiping matter. The author's attempt is to explain every thing 
from the Dutch, which he believes was the same language as the Anglo-Saxon. 

The Merry Tales of the Wise Men of Gotham, 

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Illustrations of Eating, displaying the Omnivorous 

Character of Man, and exhibiting the Natives of various Countries at 
feeding-time, by a Beef-Eater, fcap, 8vo. with woodcuts, 2s 

Elements of Naval Architecture, being a Translation 

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Poems, partly of Rural Life (in National English), 

by William Barnes, Author of ** Poems in the Dorset Dialect," 12mo. 
cloth, bs 

Waifs and Strays (a Collection of Poetry), 1 2mo. 

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Facts and Speculations on the History of Playing 

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Engraving, with Illustrations by J. Jackson,' 8vo. profusely illustrated 
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